the new Swedish Pop scene - Knife, Zeigest etc... S/D

destroy - robyn, bodies without organs

I can tell you're wondering about a particular aesthetic emerging, but I'm confused by the smattering of examples (The Concretes?) you're defining it with.

Search: The Cardigans ;) ROBYN (too real for Lex)

I have a feeling A Camp (Nina Persson's other project) might fit your description here.

Destroy: The Wannadies

I can't remember if I've heard Jenny Wilson or not but I totally don't have room to investigate more right now!

f'rinstance - scanindie indiepop mailing list archives (est 1994):
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~chief/SID/sid-101.html

(actually, shit, i recognise some of those posters from other places, sami and kimmo in particular)

obv. UK pop = Arctic Monkeys OR Girls Aloud

Which makes it doubly embarrasing when Lily Allens fudge the middleground and everyone wets their pants over quite rubbish music.

I'm ignoring the thought that "Britpop" was probably our version of Scand-pop after all by those criteria...

a bit electro, a bit indie, a bit goth depending on which band you're talking about

It's all pop music end of the day, but yeh it's not Britney Spears in that sense. Knife are "proper" as in the 80s definition of pop for me.

Even if Lex pop sells and charts too I'm pretty sure there isn't such a culture war about it and that's -maybe- why they're better at it?

Which makes it doubly embarrasing when Lily Allens fudge the middleground and everyone wets their pants over quite rubbish music.

Don't understand. They're all pop acts. And I agree that the Knife is a pop act in Sweden.

They might all -be- pop but I can't imagine the latter and the former sharing a huge number of fans due to the ideology, which I've always got the impression just isn't the case so much in other nordic european countries (to avoid the swede thing). I might be totally off on this.

-- Konal Doddz

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(I stand corrected)

Ane Brun is technically a Norwegian singer/songwriter, but has lived in Stockholm the last decade. I've swooned for the one upbeat song off her last dark piano album (recommended for fans of 50 Words for Snow) for the past week:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lI30Qw69AQ

Oh, if the dark humor reminds you of a Roy Andersson film, its because this is directed by Brun's partner Magnus Renfors, production designer on We, the Living.

Not a pop band, but they're Swedish, and beyond great... bob hund.

Jenny Wilson has released two more albums since the first one referred to in this thread and they're all highly enjoyable, even if neither of them match the highs of the first.

Love this--sounds approximately 31 years old:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t83WI8WRZlU

"An Old Beginning"'s nice too (same album).

spotify playlist
http://open.spotify.com/user/nick.douglas/playlist/6jdEDao5qr0n5jx8IgkZwT