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Sweet Offering from The Sweet Serenades
Mar 9th
The Sweet Serenades‘ new song “Die Young” actually kind of suits their name as it is a sweet (albeit bitterly so) duet with Club 8 singer Karolina about the dangers of falling in love with a one night stand. Apparently it was featured in an episode of Grey’s Anatomy, but what upcoming-yet-already-popular-in-the-blog-world band hasn’t been featured on that show? I just hope The Sweet Serenades don’t suffer the same fate as Imogen Heap who I used to adore but can’t listen to anymore without imagining Marissa and Ryan from The O.C. pouting over whatever injustice their upper-class lives have inflicted upon them (or the SNL skit it resulted in, but at least that one was kind of funny). No, do the song justice and listen to it without having it tainted by the context of some American soap drama. And if you simply must have something to watch while listening, then check out the cute video:
“Die Young” is available on The Sweet Serenades debut album Balcony Cigarettes (a previously posted track from said album can still be found here).
The Sweet Serenades
Oct 8th
These two lumberjack-looking Swedes are Mathias Näslund and Martin Nordvall, together perhaps more known as The Sweet Serenades. They’ve already received glowing reviews in Swedish press and their previous single “Mona Lee” was apparently very popular on the web last year. (I seemed to have missed it though, hmpf!)
Their new single is the pumped-up power pop tune “On My Way”, taken from the album Balcony Cigarettes which is already out in Sweden, Germany and Benelux. You can hear the whole album on their MySpace (where you also can find plenty of purchase links) as well as on Spotify. And it sounds good! I’m definitely keeping an eye on these guys.
~ “On My Way” ~