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Gavin B. · 10-17-2010, 02:40 AM

From the Fringe

I've spent the last week catching up with some of the more unconventional artists in my music collection. A copy of Youth Novels by Lykke Li Zachrisson (who goes by Lykke Li) has been in my record collection for about six months and recently, I was finally in the right frame of mind to listen to it. Lykke is a sort of Swedish version of Bjork and found myself enthralled by her sublime deconstructuve approach to pop music. The video below is Dance, Dance, Dance with accompaniment supplied by members of two Swedish bands, the Shout Out Louds & Peter, Bjorn & John:

Wildbirds and Peacedrums is percussion driven Swedish group that plays unclassifiable mix of spare, bluesy vocals and powerful drumming -- with some pop and jazz elements mixed in for good measure -- Sweden's Wildbirds & Peacedrums feature singer Mariam Wallentin and drummer Andreas Werliin. Their album Rivers is one of my favorites for 2010. The video is a live performance of the song There Is No Light.

Mountain Man is a Vermont based all female vocal trio that I've covered before in this blog. Their 2010 album Made the Harbor is simply one of the most stunning and original roots music debut albums I've heard in years. Animal Tracks sounds like a 19th Century Appalachian folk ballad recorded in a Library of Congress low tech, single microphone, field recording session.

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Gavin B. Model Worker Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 1,248	From the Fringe I've spent the last week catching up with some of the more unconventional artists in my music collection. A copy of Youth Novels by Lykke Li Zachrisson (who goes by Lykke Li) has been in my record collection for about six months and recently, I was finally in the right frame of mind to listen to it. Lykke is a sort of Swedish version of Bjork and found myself enthralled by her sublime deconstructuve approach to pop music. The video below is Dance, Dance, Dance with accompaniment supplied by members of two Swedish bands, the Shout Out Louds & Peter, Bjorn & John: Wildbirds and Peacedrums is percussion driven Swedish group that plays unclassifiable mix of spare, bluesy vocals and powerful drumming -- with some pop and jazz elements mixed in for good measure -- Sweden's Wildbirds & Peacedrums feature singer Mariam Wallentin and drummer Andreas Werliin. Their album Rivers is one of my favorites for 2010. The video is a live performance of the song There Is No Light. Mountain Man is a Vermont based all female vocal trio that I've covered before in this blog. Their 2010 album Made the Harbor is simply one of the most stunning and original roots music debut albums I've heard in years. Animal Tracks sounds like a 19th Century Appalachian folk ballad recorded in a Library of Congress low tech, single microphone, field recording session. __________________ There are two types of music: the first type is the blues and the second type is all the other stuff. Townes Van Zandt