Sweden

Um, for whatever reason, a disproportionate number of the good demos we receive are from Sweden. Either the rest of the world hates us, or something strange is going on in Scandinavia.

Antennas - Adapt!
Ok, this song is pretty straight-up, unapologetic power-pop. But sometimes that's alright. Sometimes you find yourself nodding along to the soundtrack to Veronica Mars wishing that your life justified driving 4/4 beats coming out of nowhere and setting the mood.
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Existensminimum - Changing Lines
If you were to say this song sounded like a Spoon song you would be right. If you added that this song sounded like a particularly good Spoon song, you would be even more right. If you told me that you didn't like this song because it sounded too much like a Spoon song I would tell you that you hate music, but then I would apologise and we would go on a bike ride.
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Marching Band - Home Alone IV
Sometimes I can't handle all the pretty pop music harmonizing and super-dense multi-tracking that's going around these days. But most of the time I'm a sucker for it and will find myself making a playlist containing a bunch of song like this, always with the Kinks "Waterloo Sunset" to start the set off, and will sit on my deck and watch the neighbours do whatever it is that they do.
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