Lane
If you have not noticed I like the music from Sweden a lot. But when I come to think about it, I have not written all that much about swedish music. But that will change, at least I think hehe.
Earlier this week I got my hands on a record that I was told I might like. I took it in my hands, tilted my head a bit, looked at the cover and quite liked what I saw.
Then I put in the cd-player, put the headphones on and pressed play. The first thing that met me was some picking on a guitar and a bass, drums kicking in… Another guitar. I propably thought “hope the vocals are good, hope the vocals are good” (vocals are important). After a quite long intro the voice comes in, I can feel my body relax as the blood in my vains stops for a splitsecond as my heart skipes a beat.
With the record came a small note from the label/distributor. I looked at it and saw that the lovely vocals belonged to Maja Zetterberg and Elia Almegård.(Another look and I see that it is a all girl band. Not that it matters, but fun). The second song begins, I start thinking that they sound like something that I like, and yes, once again it is, as with The Arrogants, that I hear a hint of the lovely, lovely The Sundays. Then when I took a closer look at the note I saw that it said: “…among the influences you can hear…… like Cat Power, early Ride, Lush and Sundays.” The note ends with: “with one foot in shoegaze britain and the other in mellow america” and for the first time (not that I have read 100´s of notes like this one, but at least 50-150) I feel that the note from the label/distributor describes the music just right. I have right now listened to it about ten times and it just keeps growing on me.
Lane - “A secret”
#2 from the record.
Lane - “Turn off the lights”
#4, and I forgot to mention that it contains nine songs. And to get to their label; Ssschuitt
For Lane´s homepage you have it here, Lane. And once again, if you like what you hear, make sure to buy it and support these women. Take care.
