swede pop.

It's been well over a year since I first discovered and fell in love with Jens Lekman. At that time, I had never really noticed much music I liked coming out of Sweden. Shortly after being exposed to the music of Jens Lekman however, It suddenly seemed as though a lot of the new music I liked was all coming straight out of Sweden. Ranging from indie pop to post-punk to electro pop and eurocrunk, Sweden really seems to have its musical bases covered in recent years. Some of my favorite artists from the past year (LO-FI-FNK, Stacs of Stamina, Love is All, The Knife, and of course Jens Lekman) are coincidentally all Swedes.


Jens Lekman
There is another 'band' from Sweden that has also garnered much attention and praise, which I have ignored until recently. Suburban Kids With Biblical Names. I'm not sure why I avoided them. I'm sure I knew that they were supposed to be good. I'm sure I knew they were from Sweden. I don't know what I was expecting. For some reason, based on their name I'm almost certain I was expecting them to sound like Panic! at the Disco !? Which they don't. At all. Anyway, the other day I suddenly felt compelled to download some songs by these Swedes from an mp3 blog aggregator. I was shocked after hearing the first song, and immediately fell in love. Ironically, they sound very much like Jens Lekman. Both could be classified vaguely as 'indie pop' If you want to categorize. The singer actually has a very similar voice to Jens. It's uncanny at certain moments. I'm not sure how that happens. Maybe It's just a common occurrence in Sweden that male vocalists have super awesome voices.


Suburban Kids With Biblical Names