Makthaverskan - Ill - VINYL LP

Stones - Three Blind Mice [COMPACT DISCS] date 03/03/2015

Limited transparent red colored vinyl LP pressing of this album from the Swedish band. Gothenburg's Makthaverskan have always seemed to escape traditional genre definition. As Pitchfork wrote of their 2017 LP Ill, they are a band that makes Inchmusic for the marginsInch - and such has been the case since these former schoolmates founded their band (the name of which roughly translates to Inchpowerful womanInch) over a decade ago. Their fourth full-length album För Allting (which translates to InchFor EverythingInch) follows a 2019 two song single InchDemands/OnkelInch as well as their aforementioned third LP, and continues right where those songs left off at the intersection of blissful pop and angst-ridden post-punk. The divide is clear between these two influences from the start - the simmering synth drone of the untitled intro track explodes into InchThis Time,Inch a tune carried by the Johnny Marr-inspired guitar work that shines throughout, followed directly after by InchTomorrow,Inch a track that allows vocalist Maja Milner's one-of-a-kind voice to shine. The mood shifts drastically on the song InchLova,Inch with a dark drum and bass beginning fitting for any one of Bauhaus' albums, with Milner haunting the song throughout with the lamenting lyrics repeating, Inchyou used to be mine...Inch This tension continues throughout the record, but the band's ability to twist a myriad of references into one cohesive whole makes For Allting uniquely suited to a modern music landscape This is dream-pop for realists, unafraid facing the contradictions between beauty and rage and turning them into something completely new.

Think Acursed, think Martyrdöd to some extent. This is crustpunk, deriving from Lidköping, Sweden. The band are currently being hyped as one of the more diverse band right now; as the music they do reflects, as the title suggests, Darkness. You have the straight on hardcore, crustcore wibes as will as moodier parts.