It's simply not possible to know all the bands and records and so it takes a coincidence if you discover a band that you've never had on your radar. That's what happened to me recently when I was looking for Scandinavian guitar bands on the internet.
One of the results was a band that simply calls itself Studio. It is a band that was founded almost twenty years ago by two art students, Dan Lissvik and Rasmus Hägg, in Gothenburg, Sweden. They have only recorded one album, West Coast, which has been unjustly overlooked.
The two Swedes seem to love herbaceous trance states, which they play themselves into in extremely long sessions. On the one hand, the songs, carried by guitar licks, are strongly orientated towards krautrock, but leave enough room for meandering rhythms, borrowings from new wave and meditative scenes. In better times, their songs would have been remixed and much better known.
Studio - Life's A Beach
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I saw this on a reissue list somewhere quite recently and was quite shocked, as I have a promo CD from the original release and have never seen it anywhere else. It's one of those albums I've always enjoyed, but knew very little about. I'm very tempted to pick up a copy on vinyl if I see it at a good price.
Thanks, Walter, not the easiest band to search for on the internet, though less risky than searching for bands like Adult., Adult DVD, etc.
I also found Studio by accident, having first enjoyed Dan Lissvik's remix of Fever Ray back in 2009. Great pick.
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