Fever Ray shouldn’t have the Swedish music market cornered in terms of bands with “fever” in their name. Much like Arcade Fire monopolized those words for the past few years (so much so that the band Theater Fire got grief for stealing the name despite the fact they formed before Arcade Fire), Fever Ray shouldn’t have a monopoly on the term “fever”. Anyway there should be room enough for two Swedish Fevers and Le Fever deserves a chance.
Le Fever is Tom Lagerman a 19 year old boy from Sweden. This summer he occupied his parents living room for three days and three nights to record some of his music. That session became the album The Youth Blamed It All Over Me which he plans to release in Stockholm next week. The songs share a sound with Loney, Dear even down to the airplane references. The music is an odd amalgram of indie pop, twee, and electronica with the occasional horn section thrown in for good measure. Since it’s Thanksgiving in the States the best analogy I can make is that Le Fever’s music is a cornucopia of all the best sounds of indie rock.
Le Fever needs our help to spread his music throughout the world. Let’s make this a social media experiment and see how far we can take him. For more info email Le Fever here – le_fever@yahoo.se.
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