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Originally Posted by Kanzaki88
If I were you, I'd pick Jens Lekman, Kent, Håkan Hellström, Veronica Maggio, Lykke Li...there are so many, but they're fantastic. Kent may have been played A LOT on the radio back in the day, but they're one of my all time favorite bands. Listening to the 'Du & Jag Döden' album makes me tear up, every time I listen to it  |
Haha I have been thinking about this post a lot, I already had Veronica Maggio and Lykke Li in my mind before I read your comment
I really like their latest albums! And Kent are like... legends? haha But I have my Kent periods, and right now isn't one :/ But I totally had one when they released their latest album
haha
But yeah, let's introduce some Swedish music here!!
First of all, I won't make this post as fancy looking as all the other with pictures and stuff, because I'm too lazy to do so
I have actually only been listening to Swedish music for like the three, four past years, because I reaaaally disliked everything I heard on the radio before that, but I got a friend who introduced me to so much and I'm really amazed how much great music we actually have, but that isn't played as much on the radio as the bad music from Melodifestivalen and Eurovision (I hope I won't offend anyone
)
I won't write entire biographies so if you get interested you probably can find them on Wikipedia
I will start with the obvious, Robyn.
She has been around since like forever, I think she debuted when she was 15, and now she's 30-something. I never liked her when I was a kid, but my friend told me to listen to her album "Robyn" which was amazing (check "With every heartbeat" on Youtube), and her latest release, "Body talk" which she released last year was really good. She released the album as three mini albums and then one 15 track album with the best songs! If you like what your hear, just check it out
This is Dancing on my own, which probably is one the most popular songs in Sweden last year-now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcNo07Xp8aQ
And if you like her, check out her music video for "Indestructible"! I love that song, and the video is good!
I haven't seen her live yet, but from what I have heard, she's amazing live.
The next artist I'll introduce is Lykke Li!
She is a popular indie artist, and has been around the past couple of years. She's very interesting and I really like her music! Don't know what to write about her, just watch this video of "I Follow rivers", because I think the song is great and the video is really good
Seriously, it's like perfection haha.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZYbEL06lEU
Check her out if you like it
The third one I'll introduce sings in Swedish, and is called Veronica Maggio! She has released three albums, the latest just a little while ago, and she's just getting better and better with every release (can't stand most tracks on her first album though, but really like the second and third^^).
She's half Italian and has always been famous for having fun/interesting lyrics, and this song I will post here is interesting ineed
it can be interpreted in two ways, number one is that she's trying to reach her beloved one even though it's very hard, and the other interpretation has a more sexual meaning and can be interpreted as if the song is about an orgasm (if I'm allowed to use a word like that on this forum...). She really plays with the lyrics though, which she does in almost all of her songs. And she's very good live, saw here last summer
It's a nice song though and it's really popular in Sweden right now
And the video is quite interesting!
Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjZwz3yxS9I
The next artist I will introduce is the electronic indie duo, The Knife!
This duo is made of the siblings Karin and Olof Dreijer, and they make the most amazing electronic music together. They have a very interesting concept and image and almost never appeares in interviews, and when they do they always wear masks and disort their voices
Their most famous song is probably "Heartbeats", so check it on youtube. There is an amazing live version of it.
This is the song "Marble House". It's good, but not their best, but it has an interesting video haha. I was going to post the video for their song "Silent Shout", but I can't find it on Youtube!
Totally sad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WhQ5TiBHVk
And Karin has a solo project called Fever ray, where she released an album with the same name like two years ago, and it's in my opinion one of the best albums of all time
Here is "When I grow up", it's really good!! Seriously, watch this!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F-CpE73o2M
This is getting long, but if you like the Swedish music I posted here and want more, check out "Anna Ternheim (the song "What have I done"), Miss Li (really fun live), Kent (probably THE most famous band in Sweden), Maia Hirasawa (half Swedish, half Japanese girl who just released her first album here in Japan
), Oskar Linnros (very popular last year), Jenny Wilson (released a GREAT album called "Motherhood"), Laleh (does a lot of good music), and probably a lot of other artists that I have forgotten!!
Hope you enjoy, and don't only listen to the songs from Melodifestivalen! haha
Kthxbai
^^
*Edit*
I totally failed with the Youtube links, sorry about that and please forgive me!!!