Ebbot – the fantastic vocals of The Soundtrack Of Our Lives – has done it again. A few days back I browsed through my music library to find some easy listening music for Molly Fake and re-discovered the fantastic album ”Bröderna Lindgren – Vuxen Barnmusik”. The nostalgia for us Swedes that grew up in the 70’s and 80’s is quite intense; just check out the album cover.

The guest list on this album is amazing; except for the Lindgren brothers the following stars has joined the line up: Kristofer Åström, Ebbot Lundberg, Swedish Tiger, Nina Ramsby, Martin Hederos, Mattias Alkberg, Vanna Rosenberg, Swing, Caroline Wennergren Asha Ali.

My favorite track is the second song on the album – En flugas väg (eng. The Path of a Fly).

Check out the album on Spotify or visit the band website on MySpace.

above: two members of the LO union, appearing in a swedish TV debate.
unsurprisingly, these gentlemen were very upset about the arbitrary approval of the AMF bonuses.

sure, we’ll leave the politics out of this blog, but I could NOT resist snapshooting their stasches.
these men are on a mission, much like The Genuine Fakes.

cheers blog readers!
//Morty Fake

Review of “I Don’t Want It” single

Sweden’s best kept secret is easily The Genuine Fakes. They have yet to release an album, but the buzz on this band is deservingly huge! They don’t hide the fact that they are all about power pop, and fans of Weezer, Fountains of Wayne, The Posies and The Merrymakers will welcome The Genuine Fakes with open arms. This band aint kidding around… they are serious of climbing to the top of the power pop charts, and with super high quality music like “I Don’t Want It”, they deserve to get ther. Look for the first full length album in the fall of 2010.

Popbang Radio

Review of “Something New”

HEAVEN CAN BE FOUND WITHIN A POP SONG
When people refer to pop music these days, they mean Britney Spears, Aaron Carter, Ashlee Simpleton, uh- I mean Simpson and all the teeny-twerps on MTV/TRL. Well, when we used to talk about about pop music, this song would have been the very definition. A solitary sweet but stinging electric guitar opens the tune, quickly followed by bass and drums, then finally the whole band. The song is reminiscent of Todd Rundgren/Utopia meets Cheap Trick meets Jellyfish. Great vocals, great melody, great musicianship and great production. The ending is relentless and makes you want to put your fist through the roof. Since I can’t really do that, I’m just gonna yell- yee hah, and play the song again. Congratulations- we have a winner.

Garageband.com

Review of “Irreplaceable”

Proud members of the power-pop fraternity populated by Dwight Twilley, Big Star, Teenage Fanclub and the like, this Swedish trio convincingly transforms the steely Beyoncé ballad [Irreplaceable] into something that wouldn’t sound out of place on a Fountains of Wayne album.

thestar.com

Recension av “I Don’t Want It” (demo)

Det här låter verkligen Popsicle. Sångaren försöker låta Popsicle, låtar försöker låta Popsicle, texterna försöker låta Popsicle. Och de lyckas hur bra som helst. Och jag älskar det. Förbehållslöst. Jag vet inte varför egentligen, kanske “for nostalgic reasons”, för det är verkligen inte nyskapande på något sätt. Men oj va bra det är. Och jag vet, man ska vara så jävulskt nyskapande, man ska förakta allting gammalt, man ska älska det nya helt oreflekterat bara för att det är nytt. Speciellt som skribent (jag hävdar inte att jag är en skribent, mest en allmän iakttagelse). Men vad gör man om man älskar någonting bara för att det är bra, inte för att det är nytt? Äh, jag vet inte, jag tänker inte ljuga för er, jag gillar det grymt mycket. Det låter precis som en treminuters (nästan fyraminuters, faktiskt) poplåt ska låta, och det behövs inte mer, speciellt inte i slutet på mars när snön börjar smälta bort och våren till slut kan kämpa sig upp till ytan. För våren, det är gitarrpopens bästa årstid, och det är då jag lyssnar på The Genuine Fakes. Och Popsicle.

Popochskit.blogspirit.com

The Genuine Fakes are:

• Joey Fake - lead vocals / guitars
• Morty Fake - bass / backing vocals
• Johnny Fake - drumkit / backing vocals
• Tommy Fake - keyboards / backing vocals

The Genuine Fakes is the new hope of powerpop in Sweden. Their songs are fueled by rock and catchy singalong melodies.

The band was formed in late 2005 in a basement in Södermalm in Stockholm. The guys; that shared a love for melodic pop and moustaches joined up and beautiful music came to be instantaneously. Influences from bands such as 90’s indie legends Popsicle from Sweden, The Posies, The Wildhearts, Fountains of Wayne, Weezer, Jellyfish, Cheap Trick and Pearl Jam, to name a few, were forged in a way that creates a unique sound in this day and age. You’ve got beautiful harmonies on a thick, powerful foundation of distorted guitars, Hammond organ, McCartney-esque bass lines and noisy drums. The instrumentation is raw and the vocals are as slick as The Beatles’ were in their prime. The band delivers three and four part harmonies that you haven’t seen or heard the likeness of live since the last Jellyfish tour in 1993. A concertgoer perhaps described it best: “It’s Popsicle-rock with Beach Boys harmonies!”

The creativity flourished and a whole album’s worth of songs were written over a couple of short months before it was time for the first gig in January of 2006. Since then the band has played most of the Stockholm rock clubs, such as Alcazar, Klubben and Stampen to name a few. The year was topped off with a critically acclaimed performance at the Rookie Festival in Hultsfred, handpicked as one of 30 bands amongst thousands of applicants.

In conjunction with the Rookie Festival the band released its first single, entitled “Star”. It quickly sold out and has been downloaded persistently on MySpace since then. The first full length album is currently in the making, and the band is shopping around for labels to release it at this moment.

The band has also recorded a couple of interesting covers. One is a Posies song called “Somehow Everything” which was released in the US on “Beautiful Escape: The Ultimate Tribute to The Posies” (Burning Sky Records). The other one is an original interpretation of Beyoncé’s smash hit “Irreplaceable”. It has become an instant live favorite, winning over even the most skeptical listener. Thestar.com describes it: “Proud members of the power-pop fraternity populated by Dwight Twilley, Big Star, Teenage Fanclub and the like, this Swedish band convincingly transforms the steely Beyoncé ballad into something that wouldn’t sound out of place on a Fountains of Wayne album.”

As a live act they’re a true force to be reckoned with. There’s a brand new band in town!

The 35 song, triple disc Posies tribute album “Beautiful Escape - The Songs of The Posies Revisited” will be released on May 20. There will be a release party at Nuemo’s in Seattle at a Posies concert on May 17th. It’s bound to be a great show! Plans are also in the works for a release party in Stockholm since so many Swedish acts have contributed tracks to the album. Nothing official yet though.

The Genuine Fakes’ contribution, “Somehow Everything”, was aired on WMEL Radio last night. It’s being added to a bunch of different radio shows in the US and Australia at the moment. It’s also posted on the Beautiful Escape MySpace again, so if you haven’t heard it yet just head on over there and have a listen.

There’s an article on the band in the latest issue of Swedish online magazine Bandaren. You can download the whole magazine in a PDF file right here if you want to have a read.