kinda stoned :: swell
dirty boots :: sonic youth
hair & skin :: mazzy star
my lover will go :: ane brun
dont hold yr breath :: the walkmen & calla
just like tom thumb’s blues :: nina simone
im so lonesome i could cry :: johnny cash & nick cave

“I’m wondering where everything went wrong. What I mean is, how did we get so detached and disconnected from the thing that is sustaining our very existence? The world, this planet, our home. I don’t think that it’s all going to end tomorrow, but we are on the precipice of changing things to such an extent that things will not recover. The sad thing is we are so accustomed and attached to our materialistic way of life, all these things we have, all the things we consume, when it comes down to it, what do we really need? Food, Water, Love, Family. I guess it sounds all hippy dippy right? well, I think there will come a time, in the not so distant future, when we will all have to make a choice between those things that we think are beneficial to our existence, and those things that are truly crucial…”

words & art by ken dougherty.

Sweden have brought us many great things. Where would we be without our meatballs and Alfred Nobel? My student flat would be bare if it wasn’t for Ikea furniture. But best of all: Swedish music. Gone are the days of associating Swedish music with ABBA and other dodgy Eurovision-style tunes. I keep discovering new bands then discovering that they are Swedish. I’m really quite obsessed.

In particular, my love for Swedish pop music knows no bounds.
First Floor Power are no exception. They made music between 2000 and 2004, and vocalists Jenny Wilson and Karl Jonas Winqvist are currently pursuing side projects, but with talk of a new FFP album in the pipeline.

I find their music quite hard to define. Jenny’s vocals are terribly distinctive, and at times it’s heavily guitar-based but interspersed with bleeps that sound as if they have come directly from a 90′s console game. I think it’s probably best to just listen.

Time TimeScissors, Bag or a StoneA Mother is Missing

Always Having Fun in Front of the CamAll from There Is Hope (2001)

I’m half-convinced there’s something in the water in Ontario.

It seems to me that almost every single rock band that comes out of that province is absolutely flawless. There’s a certain “Canadian sound” that you can sample in bands like Our Lady Peace, Finger Eleven, and a young band called First Time Fallen.

Even though the band is comprised of a handful of twenty somethings, the band sounds like it’s been crafted over the last decade. One of my favorite “shower bands,” (the albums you listen to while you’re showering so you can revel in the alleged greatness of your voice which is really just a product of amazing acoustics) this band hails from Burlington, a hotbed of musical intensity.There’s nothing about this band that doesn’t come close to perfection. The vocals soar over the crushing guitars, bruising melodies and heartwrenching lyrics- this is one of those bands that you cannot help but rock out to. By the end of the first track, you’re guaranteed to be singing into your hairbrush microphone to your imaginary audience of thousands.

You know those rare moments in songs where you have that surge of electricity in your soul that screams, yesss yesss, one of those moments that can only be described with devil horns?

This band will make you want to do that with every song they play.

i don’t want to think

i don’t want to dream

i just want the point shown to me clearly

i just want to know my meaning

would it be more than i can bear to take

would it be a grave mistake

(( Confinement Insanity ))

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