Tagged: The Embassy
Video: The Embassy, “Livin’ Is Easy”
Of “Livin’ Is Easy,” The Embassy’s Torbjörn Håkansson simply says, “This is disco.” Can’t argue with that. Past collaborator Thomas Hämén directs, working trippy visuals evoking New Order’s cover art for Technique and Power, Corruption … read more »
Staff Selects Playlist: An Optimistic Preview of 2013
Every week, a different FADER editor compiles a playlist to highlight a new release and give you a guide to that artist’s web of influences and peers. These Staff Selects live in our Spotify app, … read more »
Stream: The Embassy, “Related Artist”
The Embassy, the Swedish indie gods (to me at least) whose summer-2011 return and subsequent teases have had many seriously hankering for a proper new LP, finally announced that one is, indeed, on the way. … read more »
By the Numbers: Service
In By The Numbers, FADER looks at a big record release and breaks it down in basic digits. In FADER #82, we actually took on a record label: Gothenberg, Sweden’s Service, which, with 19 albums … read more »
Stream: The Embassy, “Roundkick”
Last September, The Embassy, leaders of the past decade in Swedish pop and one of the era’s few great bands still in tact, released a collection of rarities and B-sides, a house-cleaning which could’ve either … read more »
Download Service’s 10-Year Anniversary Compilation
One of the past decade’s secretly most influential labels, Service, home to impossible-to-appreciate-enough drivers of the experimental pop sea change like The Tough Alliance, The Embassy and Jens Lekman, celebrates their tenth anniversary with a … read more »
Kenneth Cole Reaction Re-Play Mix #4
Stream and download the fourth of four mixes in our Kenneth Cole Reaction Re-Play series. Geographically speaking, this final mix is our most globe-trotting, showcasing inspiring turns from artists from California to Nashville to Gothenburg, … read more »
The Embassy, “Flipside of a Memory” MP3
Before it was re-released by Sweden’s Service in 2004, the past decade’s secret sonic directors The Embassy handed out “Flipside of a Memory” for free at a party. “Here is the way to escape your … read more »
The Embassy, “Puttgarden” MP3
Like an actual cannonball landing on the lawn, crushing a few biennials and arriving wholly out of nowhere, “Puttgarden” ushers in the return of Swedish duo The Embassy, long dormant and never-quite-heralded-enough pioneers of the … read more »
If You Love Swedish Pop, This is Your New Homepage
Some of us (no need to name names) are mildly obsessed with Swedes and their music, specifically the incredible incubator that is Gothenburg, home to The Tough Alliance, jj, Air France, The Embassy, Love Is … read more »
