Swedish indie label Labrador Records never fails to charm the most discriminating music listeners. Here are some of their current releases.
LITTLE BIG ADVENTURE - We've been on the tip of the superb pop leanings and decadent arrangements from the brain of one-man-band Little Big Adventure for a bit now and his first label-released work, The Hateful Eye EP, will finally see release via Labrador. If you've heard his work before at all, you've probably become accustomed to Magnus Sätterström's penchant for lilting keyboard and programmed psalms of love, hate, loss, grief and all the emotional overhead baggage of growing up.
THE SOUND OF ARROWS - With Into the Clouds, The Sound of Arrows have excised a bit of their compositional density in favor of a more melodically streamlined vision. This includes focusing more explicitly on the dance music that both members clearly love; it’s nearly impossible to not hear anthems by Pet Shop Boys, Erasure, or When in Rome lurking in the lining of these “Clouds.” This allows the band to deliver one of the best singles of 2009, a salacious slice of ’80s synth-pop inspired fun.
THE LEGENDS - Sweden's The Legends is one-man studio project of the prolific popsmith Johan Angergård (Club 8, Pallers, Acid House Kings). His 4th album "Over and Over" is a brilliantly modern mix of white noise, '60s girls pop, indie, ambient and krautrock. Hypnotic washes of distorted synthesizers and sweet bouncy melodies echoes under walls of feedback and crushingly loud shimmering guitars. Fans of My Bloody Valentine, Panda Bear, Animal Collective, Stereolab and The Jesus and Mary Chain, look no further.
THE MARY ONETTES - The Mary Onettes’ critically acclaimed debut was described as the perfect mix between A-ha and The Jesus and Mary Chain. Now they are back with a grandiose new album. Imagine a Swedish equivalent of The National on a diet of speed, Planet Earth DVDs, and '80s guitar pop singles and you’ll have a vague idea of how amazing this is.
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