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David Mead: Almost and Always

For his fifth studio album, David Mead jettisons...  read more

Ane Brun: Changing of the Seasons

Love is a battlefieldLove is a supremely destructive force in Ane Brun’s songs, which document the devastation that ineluctably follows romance. It’s a fitting subject for the Scandinavian singer/songwriter, whose voice can be as tender as a bruise or as sharp as blame. On Changing of the Seasons, her quietly intense fifth album (but only her second to get a U.S. release), she and producer Valgeir Sigurðsson keep the music minimal—usually with only piano or guitar accompaniment—to highlight her expressive vocals and create a lonely, late-night mood. “Ten Seconds” and “Armour” add ominous strings and backing vocals to suggest...  read more

Tobias Froberg: Turn Heads

Previously unassuming Swede makes stab at over-the-top pop“A Swedish massage to your ear”—those are the words that greet you at Tobias Froberg’s MySpace page, and his third full-length release works hard to exemplify this tagline. Always pleasant, often soothing and entirely innocuous, Turn Heads begins with a rollicking bit of twee pop on the appropriately titled “Blissful” and then shuffles into a series of dainty, soft-rock ballads and swirling piano-pop epics that threaten to leave you asleep on the masseuse’s table. Having garnered resolutely positive press for the ’60s folk-pop of 2006’s Somewhere in the City, here the shaggy Swede...  read more