Coop Records

Pink Milk: Ultraviolet (Pink) [Vinyl LP]

Ishaaq draws from its geographical roots in Sweden and India to make something truly quirky and swinging. Completely carefree, Ishaaq mixes psychedelic electro with trippy dub with naive nursery rhyme-like melodies. A borderless hybrid where Sweden meets Goa, meets Jamaica meets the Balearic Islands, meets the present, the future, and the past. So put Ishaaq's Andra in the crate for psychedelic raga-dub-folk-pop-prog... you know that genre. Andra is also the world's first plant-based vinyl album, made from compostable bioplastic. And the covers are screen printed on the inside of old album covers. This is thus the most environmentally friendly album that can be bought today - worldwide. Andra is produced by producer icon Jari Haapalainen, and recorded in The End studio in Lund, together with Swedish and Indian musicians such as Daniel Bingert and Suranjana Gosh. The album was mixed in Berlin and in Athens.

Pink Milk: Ultraviolet (Clear) [Vinyl LP]

Personen bakom enmansprojektet är Martin "Konie" Ehrencrona som gjort sig känd som musikproducent för bl.a. Mattias Bärjed, Nifelheim, Holy, Henrik palm etc, men också som keyboardist i Les Big Byrd och Viagra Boys. Nu står han på egna ben och först ut av två fullängdare är Ny Medicin. Vi möts här av ett suggestivt ljudlandskap som kännetecknas av lika mycket naiv DIY-estetik som briljerande musikmannaskap. En märklig, svagt oroande mix svenska folktoner, DIY-jazz, ambience och kraut. Tidiga Kraftwerk poppar upp som referens.

Unlike its sibling record, Ny Medicin, Endless Autumn is synth-poppy, indie-rocking and actually sometimes a little punk-gothic. However, always just as sensitive, regardless of song orientation and regardless of influence, always wrapped in Konie's typical dreamy fragility. The arrangements are gorgeous, filled with choppy staccato guitars, eighties synth arpeggios and indie-disco beats. The vocals are fragile and insinuating and the obvious pop melodies are always there underneath and behind. Simply a blindingly brilliant pop record whose brittle nature and intellectual quirkiness make it anything but a flash in the pan. Endless Autumn is printed in 300 copies on silver gray vinyl.

European Sons: European Sons (Pink) [Vinyl LP]

OBERHEIM! is the love child of Gothenburg's alternative backyard, born from the union of scattered guerrilla groups such as URAN, Exorcist GBG, Dirty Burger, The Population, Melody Fields, Lady Banana, and Tentakel. Their self-titled debut album is a psychedelic garage rock explosion that draws its lifeblood from bands like The Stooges, Can, Kraftwerk, and The Gun Club.