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Emmaboda 2009 - good start!

The Emmaboda Festival (in Sweden) is a great little festival that I can highly recommend to everyone who's more into smaller festivals than Reading / Glasto / etc. Next year's edition takes place 30 June - 1 August 2009. The atmosphere at the festival is very relaxed and the crowd consists mostly of well behaved Swedish tweenagers. I've seen some great shows there in the past, but for some reason I haven't gone for a a few years. Today they announced their first batch of the line-up, and it's a cracker!

Nordpolen: A bit like TTA but with Swedish vocals!
Markus Krunegård: From Laakso who released a great solo album earlier this year (singing in Swedish).
Parken: Great indie pop!
Joel Alme: One of my favourite new artists of 2008 - competing with Moto Boy in the melting hearts department.

+ Crystal Castles and Navid Modiri och Gudarna

Yep, I think I will have to go to the next year's edition.

MP3: Nordpolen - Skimret
Mp3: Markus Krunegård - Jag är en vampyr (Detektivbyrån remix)
Mp3: Parken - Jag har varit vilse Lisa
Mp3: Joel Alme - When the moon shakes

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Labels: Joel Alme, Markus Krunegård, Nordpolen, Parken

By Stop Us Not
On 10 December 2008
At 1:17 pm

A song about Lisa - Part 2 of 2

Theoretically, I shouldn't like Parken (aka Pelle Lindroth) since I'm no fan of the other two bands Lindroth is in - Moder Jords Massiva (an electronic "collective") and The Chrysler (ok, but quite dull). He's also recorded his album with Rigas, another artist who I am no fan of at all. But then Parken sounds a lot like Håkan Hellström, albeit a bit more 80s inspired (there are some The Cure vibes on the album "Länge leve Parken". You can listen to the album on Parken's Myspace page). The first single of the album was "Åt helvete med himlen" which is kind of catchy, and sounds a bit like The Tough Alliance somehow. Second single from the album is "Jag har varit vilsen, Lisa" (you might have figured out by now that Parken sings in Swedish. Parken, by the way, means The Park). Listen to it below. I like it and will probably pre-order the album. Guess I just have to ignore all those other artists that I don't like that Parken is involved with!

Parken - Jag har varit vilsen, Lisa (MP3)

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Labels: Parken

By Stop Us Not
On 12 September 2008
At 12:45 pm