I had wanted to write up Santa Maria months ago but couldn’t get access to legal mp3′s and then Fluxblog scooped me. I just revisited the Santa Maria site and they now have three mp3′s available for download. Of course Santa Maria is Maria Eriksson from The Concretes.
Of the three songs available “Cuckoo” has just the right amount of sugary pop, 60′s retro (The Monkee’s come to mind) and 10,000 Maniacs stylings to make me very happy.
Bonus:
Dogs
PS The other day I wrote up a band who records for the Swedish label Lavender. It just happened to be a guy from Chicago who goes under the moniker Fireflies. You might want to check out that post if you like some of the sounds on Swedesplease.