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Ex-Concrete Victoria Bergsman heads to Pakistan to seek inspiration for her second album as Taken By Trees.

The third day of Sweden’s 2009 Way Out West is a quieter affair but we still manage to squeeze in Patrick Wolf, Jenny Wilson, Vampire Weekend, Wolfmother, Lily Allen, My Bloody Valentine and Deerhunter.

Pain by name and by nature? Leaving the confines of Nouvelle Vague, French singer Mélanie Pain releases her debut album sung in both English and French.

Sweden’s masters of lo-fi grunge and alt.country Loosegoats reform for three summer concerts including Gothenburg’s Way Out West festival.

For the third year in a row the brains behind Way Out West bring us a great mix of interesting newcomers, some acts who are just beginning to find their stride and a couple of absolute legends. On the 14 of August 2009 it is time, once again, for lovers of good music to take over Slottskogen in Gothenburg.

Last year the band reformed and did a one-off gig at Debaser in Stockholm. This year was Gothenburg’s turn. For one night we all got to be teenagers again

While we love pop, Sweden’s El Perro Del Mar remind us that pop is not love.

Karin Dreijer Andersson one half of The Knife now gives us Fever Ray, in the morning and fever ray all through the (Swedish) night.

Detektivbyrån
Lille Vega, Copenhagen
13 February 2009

In the lead-up to the stunning debut solo album, Fever Ray (aka The Knife’s spooky Karin Dreijer Andersson) has unveiled a second mesmerising video, for forthcoming single “When I Grow Up”.
 
 ’When I Grow Up’ is a slow-burning, beat-driven and strangely optimistic number characterised by Dreijer Andersson’s inimitable lyrical style, name-checking forestry, boomerangs, crab claws and [...]