VILL DU LÅNA EN MAN

VILL DU LÅNA EN MAN by Anni-Frid Lyngstad.

More bonus blogging! This time it's bonus Saturday Swedish blogging, dedicated to Laura, in honor of Freddie Ljungberg for having his goal against us ruled out for offside (and then losing), and for any other ABBA and/or Charlie Rich (!) fans out there. Have a good Saturday, and come on Sooners!

...never mind that last bit. Better luck next year!

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VINGSLAG

VINGSLAG (ft. Johan Tuvesson) by Kalle J.

This track today I'm a little obsessed with. The featured sample will be instantly recognizable to Bacharach/Walker Brothers fans out there (I know there are a few), and is the key to the song. The sample itself is more than a little piercing, sped up, house-y. Everyone knows how you can transform a sound by snipping it and looping into a sample, and there's a little of that going on here. The first time I heard this track, I was skeptical about the sample and the song itself during the first verse, but the sound wormed its way into my head by the end of the song and ends up delivering a decent emotional impact. Hard to describe (evidently!). But I like it. And it comes with a video too! Back to playing around with the ceiling.



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Photo: Ceiling cracks (3).

BE PART

BE PART by Kocky (feat. Jens Lekman & Rosanna).

You may recall (I'm sure you do!) that last December we posted a podcast that Stu did with Jens Lekman over in Iceland. You can watch it again here. During their little chat, Stu asked Jens how his new record was coming along, and Jens said it was almost finished. Fast forward to today and it is quite finished (but hasn't yet been released in the U.S.A.). Definitely pick it up on October 9, it's excellent.

Jens was also talking about about how much he enjoyed collaborating with other artists in the podcast, and today's track is the fruit of one such collaboration. What little I've read about Kocky is his debut album was a big deal this summer in Sweden, and on the evidence of "Be Part" (aka "Be Part Of It All"?), the hype is deserved. It's pop electronic dance music not a million miles from Justice or Daft Punk. It's so good it has a video! Check it out below the fold.



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Photo: Ceiling cracks (2).

WHEN I GO GYMNASTIQUE

WHEN I GO GYMNASTIQUE by Société des Admirateurs.

Good excuse for the late start this morning: we narrowly averted another flooding event at the casa. Some hose in our kitchen was leaking and when I went to check it out it practically came off in my hands--rotten. Fortunately we caught it quickly and except for having no water for a couple of hours I think we'll be fine! In the meantime I think we're going to try to figure out how to paint our ceiling, so it's all housework all the time.

Things may be dull and domestic in real life, but I've been wanting to get a little hip-hip-hipper here on the blog. To that end, I've been making concerted efforts to listen to more Swedish music this year, because the Swedes are the coolest cats on the planet. Except for the Greenlanders (maybe), but you never know.

My favorite resource for music for Sweden has been a blog called Swedes Please. A couple months ago I randomly pulled up a track by a group called Société des Admirateurs. I can't say why I did that, but I'm glad I did. It's a super cool piece of Eurodisco, and it makes this blog immeasurably hipper, starting today.

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Photo: Ceiling cracks.