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On a first, careless, listen, Stockholm four-piece Melby might seem like a charming, fun little jangle-pop band. Pay a little more attention however, and you’ll find their waters run a lot deeper than that. The band (Matilda Wiezell, Are Engen Steinsholm, David Jehrlander and Teo Jernkvist) have all the flash and sparkle of your favourite indie band, but add an ability to touch moods and feelings with a meaning beyond most of their peers. Their guitars, drums and synths rattle, roll and flicker around each other, all held together by the soul-shiver in Wiezell’s vocals, to make immaculate little guitar-pop gems, equally dusted with sadness and sugar.
Signing up with Swedish indie-rock connoisseur label <a href="spotify:playlist:4cj7BZ1Zzv1ba8p2YppFbC" data-name="Rama Lama Records">Rama Lama Records</a>, they debuted with the willowy, open-hearted psych-pop single <a href="spotify:track:55TQgt3JMvWDTtm1k7agCP" data-name="Human">Human</a> in 2016. Debut album <a href="spotify:album:4wKn4om14IDMmg7eSAuYOI" data-name="None of this makes me worry">None of this makes me worry</a> was released in 2019, earning praise from Clash and The Line Of Best Fit, and taking the band on tour in Scandinavia, Germany and the UK. Now after a couple of years of beavering away, they’re back with the follow-up <a href="spotify:album:37q8Kz1hCUPr23WFhKvmTA" data-name="Looks like a map">Looks like a map</a>. The sophomore LP sounds like a band expanding their range and reaching for the new – they retain their gift for glittering melodies, but the music here is less structured, less restricted than that they’ve made before, constantly shapeshifting and morphing, and embracing a psychedelic fluidity where nothing feels set in stone.
Signing up with Swedish indie-rock connoisseur label <a href="spotify:playlist:4cj7BZ1Zzv1ba8p2YppFbC" data-name="Rama Lama Records">Rama Lama Records</a>, they debuted with the willowy, open-hearted psych-pop single <a href="spotify:track:55TQgt3JMvWDTtm1k7agCP" data-name="Human">Human</a> in 2016. Debut album <a href="spotify:album:4wKn4om14IDMmg7eSAuYOI" data-name="None of this makes me worry">None of this makes me worry</a> was released in 2019, earning praise from Clash and The Line Of Best Fit, and taking the band on tour in Scandinavia, Germany and the UK. Now after a couple of years of beavering away, they’re back with the follow-up <a href="spotify:album:37q8Kz1hCUPr23WFhKvmTA" data-name="Looks like a map">Looks like a map</a>. The sophomore LP sounds like a band expanding their range and reaching for the new – they retain their gift for glittering melodies, but the music here is less structured, less restricted than that they’ve made before, constantly shapeshifting and morphing, and embracing a psychedelic fluidity where nothing feels set in stone.
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