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Another pleasant surprise from Sweden. When the Tough Alliance single "First Class Riot" turned up in a snowboard commercial the other day, we half-joked about the ad getting listed as the next item in the, ahem, varied catalogue of the label run by the electropop duo, Sincerely Yours. Nope, instead was the suggestion that Stockholm should put a horse's head under the chimney of every art gallery in its limits and flood the streets with cocaine-- "as a Christmas present to humanity." After that, though, the label posted a new single from one of its best and most interesting performers, the Honeydrips.

The project of Gothenburg, Sweden's Mikael Carlsson, formerly of Dorotea, the Honeydrips previously released an online single called "Åh, Karolin". It was a Swedish-language chanson based on Pierre Bachelet's music for 1974 softcore erotic film Emmanuelle. I'm not immediately sure what reference the newly posted "Hej Då Karolin" might be making, but it's another one sung in an unfamiliar tongue, with Carlsson's fey vocal crackling from the lo-fi recording amid Field Mice-like acoustic guitar and sampled orchestration. One thing's for sure: "Just another lovesong... not," the label's website says. The Honeydrips' Here Comes the Future came out earlier this year and includes TTA Guest List fave "Fall From a Height", previously posted here as a remix by fellow Gothenburger the Field.

MP3:> The Honeydrips: "Hej Då Karolin"
[Here Comes the Future is out now on Sincerely Yours]