Post-rock från Scandinavia
2006.05.18
It’s such a pleasure for me to introduce a fantastic post-rock orchestra from Scandinavia.
Sickoakes, from Stockholm, Sweden, was born in 1999, as the founding members Mats (guitar), David (bass), Jonas (saxophone), and Simon (guitar) started to play together in an old candy factory. Since then, Sickoakes have released 12″ splits, CD-Rs, net-releases, toured around Sweden, and got two more members – Jacob (saxophone) and Erik (drums). Now, the complete orchestra have released their debut album “Seawards” under Type.
This group – with its beautiful record of majestic post-rock – is, NEARLY without a doubt, making its way to my personal topten! Just press play and leave the rest to your imagination. Truly fantastic stuff. Also it warms my heart to know Type’s direction of expansion, this label never stops blowing my mind.
Listen to hi-fi clips of Sickoakes – Seawards:
1. Driftwood
3. Oceans on hold
6. Wedding rings & bullets in the same golden shrine (part II)
or this full-length track from their 2003 demo:
3. sickoakes
Visit:
- Sickoakes (official website)
- Type Records (label)
I’m not technically Scandinavian, but I’m still very proud of all you scands and swedes out there, for this!! Thank you!
May 22nd, 2006 - 10:47
i like it a lot, thanks !
sweden seems to have quite a good “experimental-rock” scene, with jeniferever, Ef and now sickoakes !