Straight From the Heart
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Marcus Ekroth
Marcus Ekroth is a musician and composer from Sweden who creates instrumental music in various styles and genres but mainly jazz, pop or folk music - often in an surprising and eclectic blend between them and with room for improvisation. Allthough the musical styles and arrangements differ between the tunes,…
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Edina Balint
Edina Balint – Echoes of Reflection and Growth A Genre-Blending Storyteller in Indie Pop Edina Balint is a Romanian-Canadian indie pop singer-songwriter whose music transforms introspection into evocative stories. Influenced by artists like City and Colour, and Bon Iver, her sound blends the narratives of folk storytelling with the ethereal…
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Written Lines
The latest single of Swedish singer-songwriter An Echoic presents the listener with a mirror into individual identity. “Written Lines” explores the idea of the human face as the book of existence, with an experimental freak folk style that sounds like an intriguing unanswered question. The main topic of the song was…
adminflowMarch 7, 2022
Bad Weather
Malmö-based An Echoic personifies the uneasiness of tough times in “Bad Weather”, his first single of 2022. A nervous fast-tempo song that reminds you of freak-folk bands like Grizzly Bear, with Swedish verses sprinkled here and there like a self-interrogating monologue. "This song is about going through, relating to, and…
adminflowDecember 15, 2021
Ashes
Day Felice crafts a memory of destruction and rebirth in “Ashes”, the band’s second album. Therapeutic confessions and politics coexist with a mix of Romanticism and alt-rock, in a concept that frontman David Lindström describes as “contrast pop”. The lyrics were partly inspired by his difficult experiences as an actor…
adminflowMay 14, 2021
Northern Lights
In their new album “Northern Lights”, Swedish folk-pop band Leading Edge transmutes the sound influences of 2010s indie folk into a sonic alchemy of pop vocal harmonies, rock-inspired guitar lines, and bluegrass violin elements. With the lyrical introspection of an eternal traveler, the selection produced by Alexander Asp presents a…
adminflowFebruary 25, 2020
Radio Shadow
The clever lyricism of Leading Edge’s new single “Radio Shadow” traverses the urban landscapes of heartbreak supported by a rich acoustic ensemble, exploring pop-influenced instrumental hooks and vocal harmonies with certain reminiscences of First Aid Kit. The Swedish septet’s new sound was consolidated by the neo-mellow approach of producer Alexander…
adminflowJanuary 23, 2020
Headless Heathen
"Headless Heathen", An Echoic's second EP, bears the weight of introspective existence in five songs. His debut release with Rexius Records is defined by “Headlessness”, a term that encapsulates his philosophical observations deriving from a self-reflective approach to creation - and life, for that matter. The songs are by no…
IsabelMay 14, 2018