Love on Drugs, or Thomas Pontén and band, curiously and passionately blend Americana and indie pop, mixing influences from both sides of the pond into a rare and unique cocktail. Thomas left his hometown Gävle a long time ago and via Uppsala and Stockholm he ended up in Gothenburg of the 00s. His music has been compared to among others The Jayhawks and Teenage Fanclub but also legends like Neil Young, John Lennon and David Bowie. Thomas mainly feels kinship with artists and bands that are a bit ”all over the place” genre wise, namely Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, XTC, David Bowie, Kirsty MacColl, The Band and Elvis Costello to mention a few. German Folkworld describe the music like this: ”This is on the rockier side of folk-rock. They definitely establish a nice groove, which gives this the edge over many other bands you hear playing in club land”. Love On Drugs has played with among others Ted Russell Kamp (US), The Mommyheads (US), Pi Jacobs (US), Sarah Macdougall (CAN) och Gordie Tentrees (CAN).

My music is free, totally free for you to use, as a hole or parts of it. Music for me is love, and love should be shared! 
IF you want add your style, passion and love - make it bigger and better BUT if you do so, please send me a pm and let me know/hear - it will make my heart warm and proud!

”…what the world needs now 
 is love, sweet love…”   :)

Love & guidance
/Dan

These are home-produced recordings of my own songs. I do lead and backing vocals and play acoustic and electric guitars, bass, drums, percussion, piano, and the odd clarinet, harmonica and mandolin. The recording process always begins with an acoustic rhythm guitar, laid down without a click track -I want to allow the small (and sometimes not so small) deviations from the song's tempo that are inherent in a live performance. This means you have to listen very intensely to the backing track when you record the rest of the parts, usually following the first acoustic guitar with bass guitar and a guiding vocal, and then the rest, layer upon layer. Everything is miked except the bass guitar, which is lined directly into my Boss BR-1200 digital portable studio. I hope you enjoy some of the songs you find here!



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