THIS ITEM IS A PRE-ORDER. WE EXPECT IT TO SHIP ON OR BEFORE THE FEBRUARY 23RD RELEASE DATE. Sambassadeur started as the world of DIY's answer ABBA in the year 2003. They lead an explosive Swedish pop movement which achieved overnight indie fame (thanks to the MP3 spreading kids!) and reached the sales charts. The band has flirted with lo-fi indie pop, Velvet Underground and The Jesus and Mary Chain in the past, but with each subsequent album their sound has grown and matured. Their second album Migratio...   [ read more ]

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In 2003 and 2004, Sambassadeur lead an explosive Swedish pop movement of home recording artists who surprised our country by not only achieving overnight indie fame, they eventually reached the sales charts. This latest output, produced by Mattias Glava (Dungen, Broder Daniel, Hakan Hellstrom) is another sparkling pop album, where breezy vocals meets deceptively sunny arrangements that perfectly wrap up the sum of this year's most heartfelt melodies.

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Sambassadeur's endearingly winsome debut album is textbook indie pop, of the gentle, bookish variety purveyed by the Lucksmiths, the Clientele, the Go-Betweens, and any number of other oft-cited luminaries, not to mention several of their Labrador labelmates including Acid House Kings and Starlet. So what sets this Swedish foursome apart in a sea of softly strummy soundalikes? Nothing much that one can easily point to, although there is something special in their ability to make even p...   [ read more ]

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