In this year of irrelevant and often completely fabricated “best of” lists I hope you haven’t come to Swedesplease searching for some sort of convenient year end wrap-up. Because I don’t have any intention of doing that. I assume you don’t come to Swedesplease for a rehash of the biggest Swedish releases of the year by the likes Jens Lekman, Peter Bjorn and John or even Jose Gonzalez.
And I certainly don’t want to add to all the list noise out there at the moment. But to be frank the holiday season is a quiet one for new music (besides x-mas tunes), so for the next few weeks any new posts will be mixed in with reposts of what I think were some of the best and most under-appreciated songs/albums of the year.
And here’s the first repost from January.
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I’ve written about Canadian ex-pat and current Stockholm resident Richard Reagh enough that I don’t think anything further of substance needs to be added. There is some news in his camp however. He’s released a new single from his record Is this the blues i’m singing? and has had it remixed by two of Sweden’s finest – Mr. Suitcase and Sophie Rimheden.
Check out these divergent takes on the new Richard Reagh song “Winterlight”.
Winterlight (remix by Mr. Suitcase)
Winterlight (remix by Sophie Rimheden)