<b>The Forest & The Trees - Missions</b>
The new album out on CD, Vinyl and Digitally on June 16 through Best Fit Recordings.

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Hailing from Stockholm, couple Linnea and Joel Edin, aka The Forest & The Trees are a striking addition to the canon of quintessential bittersweet indie-pop to emerge from Sweden in recent years. Creating delicately crafted songs, their work showcases a talent for combining playful melodies with the perfectly balanced harmonies of their vocals.
 
Having originally played together in Joel’s band Tupelo Honeys, they formed in 2008, before releasing their self-titled debut in 2010. After playing throughout Europe they released their “What We Lost” EP in 2011, featuring remixes from the likes of NIVA and Houses.
 
In the years that followed the ennui of daily life kicked in, and when Linnea lost her job and Joel found himself bored of his studies, inspiration to write new songs proved hard to find. The couple decided to “take action and leave the Swedish darkness”, and moved to Valencia for four months, a city they’d first visited and fallen in love with when they'd played there several years earlier.
 
The influence of their time in the city is palpable, lending their new album a sun-drenched optimism, despite having only written one song (lead track “You’re In My Skin”) during the duration of their stay. It’s a noticeable shift in mood, and one that the duo acknowledges: “Whereas our first album evolved around escaping and fear of growing up, the new songs are mostly about facing that fear and dealing with stuff instead of running away. We decided to name the album Missions, from one of the songs on the album, because it sums it up, it’s more positive. These songs are more about facing problems and doing something about them, rather than escaping.”
 
Drawing on the music they listened to as teenagers, bands like Popsicle, The Cardigans and The Cocteau Twins, has driven their sound to develop precision, while retaining a balance of the carefree and complex. Such a middle ground was hard to find, so despite early plans to produce the record themselves, they eventually decided to bring in Johannes Berglund, who'd previously worked with The Radio Dept. Shout Out Louds and The Knife, seeking some necessary objectivity. “We’ve been acquainted with Johannes for a few years and we totally love the work he’s been doing. So we asked if he wanted to mix our single “Putting Down the Gun” which he did and we were so pleased with the result,” they explain. “It felt like he really understood what we wanted and could help us with that final push. He really works with his gut and puts so much feeling into his mixes - we’ve been very lucky to get to work with him.”

Missions

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The Forest & The Trees - You're In My Skin

Foist

‘Hold Me’ is a song about the conversations that never happened even though they desperately needed to. It captures the feeling of incomprehension that is a result of something obviously being wrong but there is no way of saying it out loud. The song is about being torn between the decision of taking action. Causing the feeling of being afraid to what the outcome might be and pretending that everything is fine but ending up unhappy.

Hold Me

Sunday Morning Put-On

My Ideal

Written, composed and produced by Aisha Badru. Recorded by Al Hemberger at The Loft, Bronxville, NY.

Young

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Each Time You Call

Not mine all rights belong to Em Harris, this song is from her youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc6ir19lcLQ

Ready Player One By Em Harriss

Fourth track from the new EP 'Real', out on Akira Records.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/real-ep/id1178102413

Real

Loose

[Tom Perciballi & Passman Productions] 

Smiles in the Sink 

Smiles in the sink it's hard 
To swallow something dry you used to drink 
Love can be that way 
What's left are things left unsaid 
And I pretend that it don't follow me 
I pretend that it don't follow me 

A dog left a piece of itself on the sidewalk 
We try to forget that in our haste 
We might of taken things a bit too fast and then didn't break 
At all 

Love can be that way 
What's left are things left unsaid 
And I pretend that it don't follow me 
I pretend it don't follow me 
I pretend I still feel free 
I pretend that it don't follow me 

Like the first time she said 
This is all going upside down 
Like the fist time she said I'm funny 
Oh my honey I wish you were her 

Smiles in the sink it's hard 
To swallow something dry you used to drink 
Love can be that way 
What's left are things left unsaid 
And I pretend it don't follow me 
I pretend it don't follow me 
I pretend it don't follow me

A Songbook for Sundays

Smiles in the Sink

Parisian Pass is the result of music lovers coming together to create something truly special. Most of us met while studying at Uppsala University, and our passion for music and strong melodies is something that keeps us connected to each other. All members of the collective have had success in various forms - we've been featured in TV-commercials, motion picture soundtracks, been part of Youtube sensations, landed record deals, starred in musicals, released singles and performed on national television.

Each Time You Call

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