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Let’s Dance and Have Fun

2005.10.19

— Music

Some of you may remember a post of mine, a couple of months ago, about Dýrðin, a funny icelandic band who plays funny tunes and funny melodies, just for the sake of fun. Well, today, I feel like talking again about those funny unpretentious bands, whose music, which is some kind of so-called “twee”-pop, makes you feel like dancing like soul boys. No serious review, no description of those bands and their recordings, though, just a few links for your own pleasure…

The Strip Squad are “five happy people from Sweden”. They’re young and pretty (see picture) and they will soon release an album on the Songs I Wish I Had Written label. There are a couple of songs to download which are simple and pure P!O!P, and some more on Hello Surprise, especially “If You Don’t take Me Right Away, You Might As Well Fuck Off” (great title, isn’t it?).

As twee, or even more… as amateur, or even more… are The Flame. Again, Hello Surprise, this great encyclopedia about swedish music, has a couple of tunes of The Flame for you to download.

If you’re into this kind of music, why not visit The Springfactory website? “Lina badly wanted to record a song she had written about her having trouble getting out of bed. So she turned to Peter who she knew very well and trusted enough to let him interfere with the making and recording of the song. There and then a band was born.”

Since you’re visiting Helllo Surprise, find the Heikki page: that’s the only information I found about them since I last visited their website, which looks down. If you like the Concretes (I’m sure you do), you’ll like Heikki as well (one day you’ll understand why…)

I don’t remember if I said something about Epo-555 already, but let me take the opportunity: they hail from Denmark, and you’d better listen to a tune like “L’Art Pour la fart” (what the hell does it mean???) if you like energetic pop.

There’s much energy, as well, in Eurosport, or rather the Swedish band which used to be Eurosport. It’s Le Sport now, and it’s “euro-indie-disco-pop”. Well, i’m not sure I’m into this kind of music, but some of you could appreciate, so…

Friday Bridge is pretty different. I guess the Swedish singer wishes she were a French pop-singer in the sixties. I’m not supposed to call this music “twee”, but hey. Just listen!

Last but not least, i love Hemstad, too. Some of the songs I downloaded from their website remind me of those moog-led 60s songs rehabilitated by Belle and Sebastian. “Their sound is a highspeed energic, instrumental dedication to the west coast of Sweden”. Can you believe it?

Ok, that’s all, folks. Let’s dance and have fun, now!

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