The Years.

Melodic, experimental folk three-piece consisting of one songsmith (F), one sound-painter (O) and one conceptual artist (A). All three of them live and work in Malmö, Sweden and create music in a secluded 19th-century garden shack. Some people call their music surreal. A lot of people call the music soothing. Almost everyone says it makes them think of trees.
The band returns April 12th with their third full length album, Flora. Recorded in their ramshackle garden studio, Flora marks a departure from the wintry moods of the band's first two outings as according to Fredrik, flower season is anything but limonades and hammocks. The music paints a vision of summer as the darkness beneath, a busy, feverish, sprawling organic chaos. The three members build songs from dense, wavering textures of voice, strings, brass and twinkly home-made folk instruments, all couched on top of a smattering of haywire orchestral drums and swirly electronics.

Inventress of Ill (and Everything)

From the album Wao, available August 29, 2025 on Western Vinyl
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In April 2024, Joseph Shabason and Nicholas Krgovich set off on a two-week tour of Japan, their first time performing in the country as Shabason & Krgovich. In an act of well-coordinated serendipity, Koji Saito of  7e.p. records enlisted Saya and Ueno of Tenniscoats, the revered Japanese duo, to tour with and perform backing band duties throughout their stops in Matsumoto, Nagoya, Kobe, Kyoto, and Tokyo.

The four could only rehearse twice, but it was all they needed. Their connection was immediate and felt in the music; their shows fluid, elastic, and just the right amount of unpredictable. Saito had anticipated this simpatico and arranged for recording engineers to meet them in Kobe, where they had a two-day stay at the famed Guggenheim House, a 117-year-old colonial-style residence that had been converted into an artist residency.

With no songs prepared, they began to play with melodies, improvising and pulling pieces from that spontaneity into wholes. Saya and Krgovich soon realized the closeness in their approach to lyric writing. From sharing Japanese nicknames for clouds while looking at the sky above a rest stop (fishscale cloud, dragon cloud, sardine cloud, sleep cloud, sheep cloud), searching for matching socks in a bin at a clothing store, to an ode to Tan Tan, a beloved panda who had recently died of old age at the Kobe Oji Zoo — they both seek out and sing to the magic in the everyday.

That’s what this experience came to feel like: magic, every day. As the group worked, they watched the Pacific Ocean advance and recede from the windows of the Guggenheim House. Over those two days, they’d compose and record eight songs, listed in order of creation, on the album that came to be called Wao.

"What is also cool about the album is that the house is very much not a recording studio so it sounds super live and because it's also right on the train tracks you can often hear the train in the recordings as it drives by. To me it adds so much charm and personality," Joseph describes. "The whole thing felt like a dream and was over so quickly so I kinda forgot about it until a few weeks after I got home. When I opened up the sessions is was really clear that we had done something special."

It all happened so quickly, an enchanting whirl. Dreamlike, they had fallen into and out of it. Only when the recordings arrived in the mail a few weeks later did that dreamy state sharpen into a memory and a moment that you can now revisit, over and over again.

"Shabason, Krgovich, Tenniscoats" - Our Detour

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Ava Luna - "Frame Of Us"

From the album Shrunken Elvis, available September 5, 2025 on Western Vinyl
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Shrunken Elvis - "K-House"

Farao - "Voice Continues"

gorilla vs. bear's annual end of summer modern yacht rock mixtape

GORILLA VS. BEAR MODERN YACHT ROCK 2025

From the Future Perfect EP, available November 7, 2025 on Western Vinyl
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Hirons - "Being The Cause"

Joseph Shabason and Thom Gill - "Fire on the Ridge" (ft. André Ethier)

Pullman - "Weightless"

From the album Nightmare World I See The Horizon, available January 16, 2026 on Western VInyl. 
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Logan Farmer - "Manhattan"

From the album Solo Three, available January 23, 2026 on Western Vinyl
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Erik Hall - "Music for a Large Ensemble" (Steve Reich)

Unknown Mortal Orchestra started out as a one-man band, but after getting a bit of attention (mainly from Fat Possum, who UMO have recently signed to), founder Ruben Nielson decided to add a couple of members. The music is a mix of beats and psych-rock, and I’ve been loving it lately. This track was originally on their self-titled EP, but it also showed up as the opening track on their debut self-titled full length for Fat Possum.

Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Ffunny Ffrends

Releasedates

Worldwide: 15.10.2010

Pascal Pinon are the twins Jófríður and Ásthildur, two girls from Reykjavík, Iceland. When they were only fourteen they got together with two of their friends and decided to start a band. Using the instruments they found - like a guitar, a Glockenspiel and of course: their voice - Pascal Pinon worked in the twin's bedroom. At the same place they played their first gig: calling it ‘The Friendly Concert’. Only a few months later Pascal Pinon had already played various local venues and started recording their first album in a rented house using only one microphone. It sounds really cute. The main impact on the twin’s music may be a certain shyness when faced with the thin walls of their bedroom. You’ll find a very special record: A twee mixture out of acoustic neofolk and low-fi pop: an enjoyable journey through a teenager’s life with a remarkable sense for songwriting. It was nominated for The Icelandic Music Awards as Newcomer of the Year 2009. Now Morr Music, that always had a special link to Icelandic music scene will release it worldwide in dec 2010 
www.morrmusic.com
www.myspace.com/pascalpinon

Pascal Pinon: New Beginning

Best Fit premiere of Icelandic musician Sin Fang's new track 'Young Boys', taken from his upcoming third record.

'Flowers' is out 1 February 2013 in Europe/ 19 February in the U.S.

Best Fit: http://www.thelineofbestfit.com
Sin Fang: https://www.facebook.com/sinfanggg

Sin Fang - Young Boys

Blühen Illustration von Barbara Dziadosz.
Blühen Garten auf dem MS Dockville / MS Artville Gelände, 2015. 
Fotografie von Danilo Rößger. 

Inventress of Ill (and Everything)

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