Born Sara Steele in Stockholm, there’s certainly something of the frosty Scandinavian melancholia to Steele. Floating on the outskirts of the Big Time™, racking up 5 million streams and only missing the 2017 Elle fashion show because of a bout of Meningitis, Paroxysm seems custom-tooled to be the final crack that brings the dam crashing…
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There’s nothing like a brush with death to give you a new lease of life. For Swedish artist Sara Steele, it was a life-threatening bout of meningitis which left her with epilepsy, that changed her whole perspective on music. “For a long time I pushed away my natural instincts, impulsively grabbing on to stuff that I didn’t…
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Our sister site Lightning Nation recently talked in depth with Slim Loris about the process of transforming their personal pain into sonic pleasure. The Scandicana lot have moved away from the melancholia of their first three full-lengths and into more uplifting pastures. This brighter, most optimistic approach is evidenced nowhere better than album opener and brand new single…
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It’s no secret that Scandinavia has produced some of the best songwriters in contemporary music. Needless to say, Robyn’s ‘Dancing On My Own’ has been a permanent fixture in our playlists since 2010, but there’s been several waves of formidable Scandi talent since the hit-maker’s prime. Rather than lazily pointing you in the obvious direction…
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Whoever said that trap music is exclusive to Atlanta clearly hasn’t heard Sweden’s Adam 888. Self styled as the ‘Son of Jupiter’, this Scandi talent is adding his transcendental twist to trap. Blissed-out vocals, hypnotic beats and spiritual lyrical themes coalesce into a woozy concoction that he calls ‘Shamanistic Soul’. But his masterstroke is providing…
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