20 November 2008
The People V Hanratty: The Swedith Cometh

The People V Hanratty returns this week with a sexy all Swedish mix. In case you've had your head under a rock, musically speaking, Sweden is hot hot hot right now.

TPVH's list consists of some of the most indie Swedish bands and tracks that I guarantee even the coolest of you out there aren't familiar with.

10. Träd Gräs och Stenar / Life Force #3 Live Yeah so this doesn’t quite fit, but an extremely important track for Swedes and psych music in general. It is very long, and my recording is worst than shit, but really this is Swedish political/art/anarchist music from 1970.

9. The Amazing / Dragon If I am not exactly sure where this came from, I believe it is a Dungen, side project. Either way it sounds like it was destined to be lost and rediscovered 30 years from now. A true classic.

8. Wildbirds & Peacedrums / My Heart This song should make you miss someone.

7. The LK / Blakboy Vs The Snow - Just an excuse for me to get another versus in the mix. Simple Swedish pop, I like Swedes talking about Blakboys I am sure it is extremely exotic to them. Like marsupial soup or something to us.

6. Ram Di Dam / Sex, Drugs, and Frisbeegolf Nothing to me is more amazing and Swedish then sounding like a Strokes rip off band, while offsetting the implied wannabe cool thing with a song titled Sex, Drugs, and Frisbeegolf.

5. Those Dancing Days / Run Run A masterful pop tune with a standout video. I mean watch closely it is nice to see these normal looking teens instead of those glossed out Jon Benet Ramsey tricks. Also the one that looks like Annie really looks like Annie.

4. Jens Lekman / Maple Leaves (7" Version) Jens is a fixture when speaking of Swedish music. Reminds me of grey New York City days walking around with nothing to do.

3. Love is All / Make Out Fall Out Make Up Great raw anthemic song. I wish when people gushed about The Arcade Fire they sounded like this. Simple, no pretension.

2. Air France / Collapsing at Your Doorstep This song reminds me of playing the most amazing game of hide go seek in some magical forest with animals that have never existed.

1. Tough Alliance / First Class Riot I wish people did this song in karaoke instead of…whatever songs people do.

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