Blackstrap

Stockholm’s BLACKSTRAP has released 2 albums Ghost Children (2003) and the acclaimed Steal My Horses And Run (2008)- establishing them forerunners of the “next wave of shoegaze” scene. The band’s sound shapeshifts around their influences like spaced-out blues-rock like Loop and Spacemen 3, to German kraut like Neu! and Amon Duul II, to monotone grooves of Suicide and DAF. Founding member and principle songwriter, Jonatan Westh, along with key long-time members Filiph Antonsson and David Karlsson, have taken BLACKSTRAP’s sound into new exciting realms since departure of co-founder Maria Linden (to form her own acclaimed project <a href="spotify:artist:1H58rS29XotmFJWT3KCnl0" data-name="I Break Horses">I Break Horses</a> in 2010). With the extra special collaboration with <a href="spotify:artist:0Xn4iSM6rXebCl4Ub50RFN" data-name="Taken By Trees">Taken By Trees</a>&#39; Victoria Bergsman, “Make Sense Make Change” is the bridge connecting where the band left off with Steal My Horses And Run, and the sound of the single’s B-Side “Tanz Den Jesus Christus” which holds clues of the bands newer and darker synth driven sound.
Blackstrap ended by 2014, and Westh re-emerged with his new sonic vehicle <a href="spotify:artist:2BYgvr3xFPmVTEIzCdfguH" data-name="Holy Ship">Holy Ship</a> in 2018, Antonsson as <a href="spotify:artist:292PHQvmAOGeauNINCuJo9" data-name="The Heart of The Sun">The Heart of The Sun</a> in 2017.