I know I did a post about video yesterday, but I'm doing another one today. From Action Biker's MySpace I stumbled onto a lovely Swedish music blog called PSL. The best bit is a section called Video-arkiv: Musik med ("Video archive: music with". Look at me, reading Swedish with Google Translate).
It's all very lo-fi or no-fi, as most of the performances are acoustic and filmed on the streets and hotel rooms of Stockholm (go, STHLM). I find this a lot more appealing than the fast-cutting, whistles and bells approach of music shows like Transmission or Sound. And there's no grinning Shoreditch-ite telling me why it's cool. I'm such a grump.
There's loads of videos to dip into, and among the Swedish artists there are some familiar friends like Kate Nash, Laura Marling and Slow Club. So far, my favourite is Lykke Li singing Little Bit, because it starts with an old man shouting from his flat, threatening to call the police. At the end, he's been charmed by Lykke and her toy piano, and throws a flower onto the street. I also like The Dodos playing next to a Gothenburg tramline, and CocoRosie over-dressed backstage at Debaser.
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Wednesday, 3 September 2008
Tuesday, 27 May 2008
Current obsession - Lykke Li
I love Lykke Li. Maybe it's because I believe Sweden to be a wondrous paradise where the trains run on time, the elderly are respected and so on.
She just seems so lovely and untainted by trends: she can sing and write songs that are a bit kooky, but not too kooky. I haven't seen her live, but she strikes me as the sort of young lady who whips out a melodica mid-set. I fell in love when I first heard Little Bit (a restrained, I'm-not-in-love-if-you're-not-in-love song) last year. When debut album Youth Novels had a Swedish release in January, I had to snaffle it up. It's patchy, but the beautiful moments are beautiful. Perhaps with a little more time spent with Peter, Bjorn and John and she'll hit the songwriting nail on the head for the second album. Because Sweden is a wondrous paradise where you don't get dropped if the first single doesn't 'perform' chart-wise, you get nurtured. (That's how it looks from the outside.)
Here is a video of Lykke singing I'm Good, I'm Gone, with about half of the Stockholm music scene (or STHLM, if you're cool like that). Including Robyn. Yeah!
She just seems so lovely and untainted by trends: she can sing and write songs that are a bit kooky, but not too kooky. I haven't seen her live, but she strikes me as the sort of young lady who whips out a melodica mid-set. I fell in love when I first heard Little Bit (a restrained, I'm-not-in-love-if-you're-not-in-love song) last year. When debut album Youth Novels had a Swedish release in January, I had to snaffle it up. It's patchy, but the beautiful moments are beautiful. Perhaps with a little more time spent with Peter, Bjorn and John and she'll hit the songwriting nail on the head for the second album. Because Sweden is a wondrous paradise where you don't get dropped if the first single doesn't 'perform' chart-wise, you get nurtured. (That's how it looks from the outside.)
Here is a video of Lykke singing I'm Good, I'm Gone, with about half of the Stockholm music scene (or STHLM, if you're cool like that). Including Robyn. Yeah!
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