Day 443

Acid House Kings: this is great news for all indiepop fans around the world. Is there an indiepop fan that doesn’t like the Stockholm based trio? I would say no, everyone likes them. So after such a long time, a more than a decade, of silence, they are back with a wonderful single, “A Little Dancing”! Essential!

The Goon Sax: another good this is that the Brisbane trio will be releasing an album on July 9th titled “Mirror II”. You can already pre-order it. It is available on vinyl and CD and will include 10 songs. One of them is available to preview, the opening track, “In the Stone”, which is a great pop songs with male/female vocals. Still hoping for them to come back to NYC!

Ta Toy Boy: finally! I thought it wasn’t going to be released physically. Or maybe it was a trick for me to write about them many times. First recommending the new album on Youtube, then on Bandcamp and now a third time when you can order a vinyl record of “Endless Life”, their second album. It is out now on Make Me Happy Records.

The Tubs: here’s a cool 7″ released by The Tubs (ex-Joanna Gruesome) on Prefect Records and Trouble in Mind. This 7″ will have four songs, “Illusion”, “Names”, “Two Person Love” and “Crystal Ball”. I don’t know how they all sound, but “Two Person Love” sounds great. Looks like something worth getting.

Lentillas de Colores: our friends from León, Spain, are back with a new split EP with the band Microfilme. There is a physical release of “Cuentos de las Cuatro Estaciones” limited to 100 CDs. The record was released last week and there are still copies available, so don’t miss this one out.

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This post will terribly short. I am sure of it.

You have to consider a band called Welcome, in the internet days, is impossible to track down. Now consider that they probably didn’t release any records. On top of that, I only know one song. It is called “Swim”. And it sounds great indeed. But that doesn’t matter.

My friend David from Barcelona, a great archaeologist when it comers to Swedish indiepop, put up on Youtube this song. “Swim”. A lo-fi, poppy song. From what I understand it came from a demo tape titled “Jukebox Classics”. Okay, that is also a terrible name to Google. How will I find any information.

Oh, yes, the band is Swedish if it wasn’t obvious. The tape dates from 1994. A good time for Swedish indiepop. The first wave of indiepop bands. They were making a splash. And some would become big.

The sleeve of the tape shows a man. Probably not a band member. I am pretty sure the band members were younger than the guy on the photo. Maybe it is someone famous. But I can’t tell who is it.

I search on Discogs. No luck. On Popfakta. No luck. Musikon. No luck.

Where else could we find any information? Who were the members? Or at least where in Sweden where they from. There’s nothing, no clues. I am hoping some reader remembers them and can shed some light. I hope so.

EDIT: Found out that this was Roger Gunnarsson’s first band which he formed with his childhood friend Carl-Magnus. The photo of the sleeve was taken by his brother Tommy.

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Welcome – Swim