The Tough Alliance
Consisting of childhood friends Henning Fnrst and Eric Berglund, G÷thenburg duo the Tough Alliance -- often referred to simply as TTA -- honed their unique blend of pop, electronica, dub, and Caribbean influences through a series of EP and album releases on the locally based Service label (also home to Jens Lekman and Studio), before forming their own label, Sincerely Yours, in 2006, which helped to establish them as a central force within the Swedish indie music scene. First formed in 2003, they debuted the following year with the Make It Happen EP, fe...[more]
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The Tough Alliance are a duo of dreamers from Gothenburg, of which not a lot of personal information is known, but whose notoriety precedes them with hefty weight. Kicking about in their native Sweden since 2004 and having established themselves as one of the most infamous bands on the scene there, with A New Chance, The Tough Alliance are ready to take on the world, one disbeliever at a time. A New Chance is a pure turquoise dream of ecstatic house pianos, white sand, melancholic strings, bli [ read more ]
CD $19.99
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VINYL FORMAT. "Neo Violence" done three ways: the album version accompanied with a Laidback Luke mix and a Woolfy mix. Wildly out there pop music from two boys who have been trouble-making best buds since the age of 12.
12" $21.99
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The Tough Alliance's first release to drop is their flawless New Waves, an EP that showcase's TTA's sublimely unorthodox pop songwriting, and sounds laced with the sweep and grandeur of what could only be pure, invincible youth. Crashing onto North American shores this summer, it's so tough.
CDep $8.99
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The Tough Alliance are a duo of dreamers from Gothenburg, of which not a lot of personal information is known, but whose notoriety precedes them with hefty weight. Kicking about in their native Sweden since 2004 and having established themselves as one of the most infamous bands on the scene there, with the forthcoming release of their latest album A New Chance on Modular, The Tough Alliance are ready to take on the world, one disbeliever at a time. A New Chance is a pure turquoise dream of ec [ read more ]
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