I’m really supposed to be previewing the Swedes at SXSW. But when I heard about this debut record from The Late Call being put out by the very fine German label Tapete everything else was put on the back burner.
The Late Call is really just one guy (+friends) from Stockholm named Johannes Maye. His debut record is called Leaving Notes and chronicles the long distance relationship he had with his girlfriend. The record and this song has an organic feel on account of the mostly acoustic instrumentation. He’s joined by Andreas Söderström (ASS, RUBIES, TAKEN BY TREES), Elias Åkesson (Stockholm’s ELIAS & THE WIZZKIDS), BJÖRN KLEINHENZ and Henrik Roger (GHOST OF TOM JOAD).
“Linnea” is an example of the gorgeous pop you can expect from The Late Call. Lots more info on this project here.
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Bonus:
A band I’ve been writing about faithfully since 2006 (here, here) has been newly signed and minted by Labrador Records. I don’t think I should ignore them now that they’ve made it. So here’s their first single and the title track off Little big Adventure’s upcoming Labrador release.
Bonus mp3:
Salt (Erik Hallden cover)
Everything’s Going to Be Alright
[...] I just wrote up The Late Call last week here. At the time there was talk of a video. Well, it’s here. And it’s gorgeous (the video [...]
Hey, so I loved that song by The Late Call (”Linnea”) so much that I went and bought the album off the record store website. Took me forever, because it's in German, and it was kind of expensive, but so worth it when I heard another sample song on his Last.fm. I'm super excited about this, so thank you so much for turning me on to him.