Dan Henrick of Playboy.com is wearing out his iPod to bring you this report:
Until recently, Sweden’s most popular exports have been moody, black-and-white art films, an amply gifted bikini team, and affordable furniture for college students and the newly divorced. And then there’s always ABBA. So it’s a bit of a shock to discover the sudden wave of remarkable female pop singers coming out of the land of high cheekbones.
-The most notable is Robyn (pictured), a pop dynamo who recently collaborated with Snoop Dogg on the single “Sexual Eruption.” Her own tracks, “Be Mine!” and “Konichiwa Bitches” are explosively catchy too.
-El Perro Del Mar is the pseudonym of Sarah Assbring (please, no jokes). Her new album “From the Valley to the Stars” merges Wall of Sound arrangements with a sweet, subtle melancholy.
-Lykke Li coos and struts on her new EP “Little Bit” sounding a bit like Feist exploring electro-beats.
-Taken By Trees is the new project by Victoria Bergsman, best-known for singing on the Peter, Bjorn, and John hit “Young Folks.” Her recent album Open Fields recalls the Shangri-La’s after a bad break-up.
-Anna Ternheim, a star back in Stockholm, plays lovely originals along with inspired covers like “China Girl.”
Smart, solid pop from a tiny Nordic country. So, where’s the next musical phenomenon coming from? Maybe female-fronted, Japanese, klezmer bands? Uh oh.
RSS 2.0
http://www.playboy.com/mt-tb.cgi/11841