Single review, Köttgrottorna, Gatans Lag and Vänsternäven - Buy it or cry!

Köttgrottorna – Bolla med Zlatan/Online (Digital Single 2013)

I think the suburbian Stockholm band, Köttgrottorna spent their 30years of existence as a band practicing for this single.  Because their quirky, funny, clever Trallpunk have never sounded better. The lyrics in the tune “Bolla med Zlatan” is pretty much making fun of the absurd  love to Footballers straight guys and sport journalist shown proof of more than once. It´s a bit rougher in the sound than the average Köttgrottorna songs and I think this will be one that fit right in, in their funny and thoughtful repertoire. The second song what on vinyl is called the B side, Online is a song about internet obsession, a clever rock n roll tune that sticks for some times after you stopped listen to it.
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Gatans Lag – Från fest till arrest (Digital Single 2013)

Something in Gatans Lag rageful music is missing in their latest single, “Från fest till arrest”, the single that precedes their full lenght record this spring 2013. No doubt will this be a singalong all over the country this summer from one of Swedens hottest live acts, the Band Gatans lag from the province Västergötland. It´s catchy and clever and definitve a Gatans Lag tune. But there is something lacking in it, the total rage, that I can trace in their other good tunes isn´t there. In my ears it´s like their angry days are over and they look back on those days. The lyrics in translation is something like, we walk with easy steps from the party to the arrest, like the party is over. I hope not, I hope it´s just in my ears it sounds like that. Because we want our Gatans Lag to be “angriest in the municipality” (argast I Kommun).
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Vänsternäven -  King of Störd/ Arbetslös (Digital Single 2013)

From another part of the province Västergötland there is another bunch of angry guys, “a bunch” is an accurate description of the band or a horde is even a more suitable word. 17 or something guys onstage chanting their choruses. Some accuse them of being peasant comedians more than being a serious punk band. I grew up in that area and know their lingo, their local dialect is in Swedes ears very much a white trash hillbilly dialect, and they made a thing of it. I feel at home in my hometown in the lyrics about some dude that is so antisocial that he can´t function with others, and can relate to it, very much so. Back in my hometown those antisocial disturbed people seemed to be everywhere, Both to once horrors as well as some freakshow amusement. Besides that, Vänsternäven have sharpend their sound a bit. It is a bit harder and hard corish which makes this single a most welcome single. Their “b side”, arbetslös is a good, catchy political tune that makes their 17 man choir to its right. And this time almost all of them in the same key.
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Over all 3 good singles from three of this country´s better bands. Buy or cry!