Great Robyn cover

This beautiful cover was made a couple of years ago. Annika Norlin (Hello Saferide) and Anna Järvinen plays a cover of Robyn´s "With every heartbeat". In Swedish.

/ The Drumming Cat

Top 30 of 2011 - so far - place 20-16

20. Pusha T - Raid

Really cool hip hop song. Ring ring...



19. Anna Järvinen - Lilla Anna

The Swede-Finn with the beautiful voice has made an equally beautiful tune from her latest album.



18. Joan as police woman - The magic

Those who have listened to a couple of her albums - as myself - appreciate her a lot. But Joan as police woman´s Punk rock R´n b is still so underrated. Deserves a lot more praise from critics and music fans.



17. Cults - Abducted

Catchy tune that may very well climb on this list as they year closes to an end in December. It just grows and grows every time I hear it. Well made video too.



16. Tune-Yards - My country

Creative and playful song. For those who like Vampire weekend, but still wants to hear something more then them.



/ The Drumming Cat

New Swedish indie!

Lycke Li is probably causing most buzz on internet at the moment, but there is much more to Swedish music then her this spring.

Two bands which I highly recommend are releasing new albums, called Syket and Det Vackra livet. Det vackra livet is The Mary Onettes singing in Swedish!

To brilliant Swedish ladies are also back with new albums later this spring. Those are Jenny Wilson and Anna Järvinen.

The Swedish tongue

Swedish pop has raised much attention outside the countrie´s borders for some time now, but these songs are of course most often sung in English. Infact there is also a lot of great music with Swedish lyrics. No news to Swedes, but maybe for residents outside Sweden, are these artists which I have collected in a Spotify-playlist. All the songs are performed by artists who uses their Swedish mother tongue to create great music. Maybe its impossible for a foreigner to listen to these wonderful tunes and appreciate it the same way as I do. For example, one time when I was visiting Italy and i asked someone how it sounded for that person when I spoke Swedish, the answer was not that flathering: "Like drugdealers" was the answer. Hopefully the rest of the world dont share that view and instead think that it sounds that Scandinavianpeople sing (which I have also heard), which would suit the purpose of this blog post a lot better...

For those of you that dont have Spotify,I must specifically recommend these artists: Jonathan Johansson , Markus Krunegård, Anna Järvinen and (Ingenting).

Perhaps the most spectacular is the group Movits!. Listen and understand for yourself why...

here you can also watch Movits talking to Stephen Colbert and perform live on his show: Colbert talking to Movits, Movits performing .

Hoppas ni uppskattar detta! (Hope you appreciate this!)

/The Drumming Cat