Armageddon Waits

The latest composition from Lamb.
I've been a fan since their debut, since 1996.

We Fall In Love

New single from Lamb, out October 20.

Dismantle and Rebuild

Via This is fake DIY The Ramona Flowers now premiere their video for 'Dismantle and Rebuild' which is taken from their forthcoming EP 'Dismantle', out November 5.

I saw them play in February when they were on tour with Lamb and their sound really interested me in hearing more from them. Andy Barlow of Lamb is also the producer of the EP.

Lamb

Sometimes things you didn't expect to happen, just happen. Somehow, I managed to get myself to the gig with Lamb in Stockholm this week.

I finally got to hear some of their great songs live, and I loved it. I finally got to see them in action and feel the great energy they spread, and what a feeling. I think my body continued to vibrate some time after leaving the venue, because of the massive bass Andy Barlow was throwing at us. The concert was tiring for my body, enriching for my mind and warming for my heart. I didn't get to hear Lusty, but Gorecki and Gabriel and many good ones off their latest album '5', e.g. 'She Walks' and 'Build a Fire'. Mesmerising I must say.

Jay Leighton, The Ramona Flowers and Lamb. Those were the bands playing Debaser Slussen that night. The Ramona Flowers handed out this single and I must say that with the great voice of their singer and some of the powerful songs they played that night, I'm looking forward to hear more of them.
  The Ramona Flowers - Dismantle & Rebuild by DistillerRecords

Butterfly Effect

A short film for Lamb's 'Butterfly Effect'.
Two weeks until they play in Stockholm, and I cannot go. How I wish things could be different...

Music from a year

As I've mentioned in an earlier post, there're many lists of best albums for the year 2011 currently being published. I'm not much for making lists of albums, I'm more into collecting songs I like and love and following the bands and artists that are close to my heart. However, I think I should mention some albums that have made my 2011 so much better and of which I am glad that I'm not without.

A part from the reissues of Suede's five studio albums and the fourth solo album from Brett Anderson, which is better than I had hoped for, there are some albums, and bands, that I am honoured to have been listening to, and seen live on two occasions. With no one better that the other, I really love these three albums:

Invasionen - 'Saker som jag sagt till natten'
Foster the People - 'Torches'
Austra - 'Feel It Break'

Other good music from this year, according to me (and I have surely forgotten some), in no particular order:

Lamb - '5'
Other Lives - 'Tamer Animals'
Dum Dum Girls - 'Only In Dreams'
Masquer - 'Cover My Face As The Animals Cry'
Zola Jesus - 'Conatus'
Anna Calvi - 'Anna Calvi'
PJ Harvey - 'Let England Shake'
Visions of Trees - 'Sometimes It Kills'/'No Flag'
Visions of Trees - 'Siren (Novocaine)'/'Sience of Hate'
Lana del Rey - 'Video Games'/'Blue Jeans'

Additionally, I'm sure there're lots of tracks and albums that I haven't discovered yet...

Have you discovered the deluxe edition of Austra's 'Feel It Break'? It includes some of the great "b-sides" from the singles, like 'Identity'.

5 songs

This is one of my favourite songs off the album '5', Lamb's latest record. I fell in love with their music in 1996 when they released their debut album; it included magical songs like 'Lusty' and 'Gorecki'.

Songs I love on '5' are 'Last Night the Sky', 'Rounds' and 'She Walks'. This is the official video to 'She Walks':