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Loney Dear: My Heart

Above all, Hall Music is a study in merging contrasts, an album of impossible pairings. The pacing is simultaneously fast and slow, with gently weaving harmonic structures propelled forward by quickly moving notes. The instrumentation is orchestral and synthesized; organic…

Principe Valiente: The Night

Principe Valiente’s debut album finds the band fulfilling the promises of their achievements to date. The Stockholm based band has in a short time gained a reputation for their live shows and are the subject of an increasing interest in…

The Search: Come Lie Next to Me

From the Swedish band’s free 36 track album The Silverslut 2000-2002. This is available for free from Jamendo, and is a compilation of the band’s first six EPs. Their more recent album Saturnine Songs is also available for free. [audio:]…

Amanda Mair: House

The fine folks over at Labrador Records recently sent over a new talent discovery out of Sweden, namely Amanda Mair. Only 15 years old (now 16) from an island outside Stockholm, Amanda didn’t have any official record as an artist…