Radio station Soundwave FM in New Zeeland has added us to their playlists.

Yes we like that!

We suggest you head over to Meadow Music, listen, download and fill your ears with some sweet sounds of the season.

The music blog Circles of Concrete has our song Fast Car as one of the best songs of 2008.

We are honoured and proud!

Read the full post here

Just great we think!

Yes, silly, but it felt good seeing us there, 20 years later.
We may make the chart, we may not, I’m just happy anyway.

Yes, we had a few things to celebrate. And how to find a better place to do than than among the stars. In the highest situated bar in Stockholm. With a lot of bubbles to inflate and make us even lighter.

The only thing missing was the man himself, the one and only Chuck Dread!

Well, Chuck we’ll waive to you when we float by!

Time to celebrate!

There are three strangers on the Swedish single chart!

Cheers!

It’s the first time for us so you can guess we are pleased.
Celebration won’t stop for a while, rest assured!

Our remixer, the brilliant Mr Chuck Dread obviously loves Christmas.
He has done a remix of Christian Björklund’s version of O, Helga Natt or Cantique de Nöel or Oh, Holy Night. And he is spreading it around for free in that good old spirit of Yule!

Christian Björklund - O, Helga Natt (Chuck Dread Remix)

Download it and if you like it give him the heads up with a comment on his blog.

For the first time ever we hit the official Swedish download chart Digilistan as number 58 this week.

We don’t know what to say really! Except WOW!!!

Keep an eye on: Strangers In Wonderland

A very interesting upcoming Swedish pop act is Strangers In Wonderland. They recently released an album and now the single is doing well.

Read the full post here (in Swedish).

And I did a check this morning (of course) and we are still doing well, number 3 on CDON!
Yes I think we are doing well. Very well!

To say we are pleased is a bit of an understatment. Surprised too? Yes maybe but to our ears it’s well deserved. We think the original was good but Fred’s remix made it even better.

Make up your own mind!

Listen to Addicted (Chuck Dread Remix):

Listen to the original Addicted:

Wow! Just take a look at the screenshot from the online music store CDON.
Strangers with Addicted (Chuck Dread Remix) in second place over downloaded songs, squeezed in between Beyoncé and P!nk. Is that cool or is that cool (and I love that Beyoncé tune by the way)
The same song is also climbing on the Swedish ITunes charts too.

Sort of time to bring out some champagne

We think the song deserves all this attention and that Fred (alias Chuck Dread) did a perfect job with the remix. And he also wrote a little about all this on his blog.

Listen to Addicted (Chuck Dread Remix):

We got a very, very cool review today by Robert Ryttman in Zero Music Magazine scoring 8 out of 10.

“Shadows innehåller femton låtar plus fyra remixer, vilket är lite för mycket för att det ska hålla rakt igenom. Men när plattan är som bäst är den helt enkelt skitbra. En sådan här debut lär inte bli lätt att följa upp…”

Full of kind words and references. Thanks.

Read the full article here (in Swedish)

Nice and thanks

On the 6th of October we released our new album Shadows.
We are very pleased with the way the album came out. Pleased in that way you are when your doing what matters most in life. And doing it without compromises.
Podcasters has been a major part in that. Without their response to our music (played 225 times in more than 75 different shows in the last year) we woudn’t be where we are today. They have given us so much encouragment and energy to move forward.
So how could we give something back?
We came up with the idea to make the whole CD podsafe, making it the first ever podsafe album ever (at least we think so).
We think that is pretty cool and hope you agree.

This is how it works:

1. Order the CD by clicking on the button below or by following this link. The price is $9.50 + $5 for S/H. A total of $14.50. And if you reside in the European Union you have to pay an additional sales tax of $3.63 on top of that.
We’ll ship it to you as soon as we can, usually the next day. Depending on where in the world you are it’ll take 2 to 8 days for the CD to reach you.

2. You’ll get the CD (with the cool podsafe sticker and all), a printed, personal and signed license to play any song from the CD in any podcast you host forever (see example here and read all the legal stuff). And we throw in the single So Much More too as an extra treat.

3. We also mail you links to mp3 versions of all the songs on the CD. So there is no need to rip the CD, just download the songs you want.
Included are also some station IDs, cool graphics, and a PDF version of the license.

Sounds good? Well, the click on the button to get your own podsafe copy and license!

And you can of still find us on the Podsafe Music Network with some podsafe songs from the CD.

Pierre Malmqvist of the Swedish radio station HitMix has started spinning us. I know he’s been playing Fast Car, Walk With Me and Chuck Dread’s Addicted remix.

Cool, and feeling a bit dizzy here. Thanks

If you like Swedish music, and if you want to know what’s new and mostly undiscovered yet, then you need to visit the mp3 music blog Meadow Music.

With an eclectic view towards styles and genres it showcases a lot of really good Swedish independent bands and artists. And loads of mp3 downloads that’ll keep your player spinning for a long time (and expanding your mind at the same time).

And yes, of course we got included with a review of the new album.

”The base is solid pop with beautiful melodies, strong choruses, an atmosphere and lyrics that give a feeling of mystique around their Wonderland-theme. Åsa Girgensohn adds a lot of tension and drama with her vocals. Her voice reminds a little of ABBA-Annifrid, but with real dose of attitude added, which makes it more interesting to listen to.”

Read the full article here.

Thanks!