Monday, June 14, 2010
Don't Know Much
Swedish pop quartet Sambassadeur, who provide today's song, the sweet, lilting 'I Can Try,' are something of a mystery to me. The group's based in Gothenborg, Sweden's second city, across the water from Denmark, and is led by the soft and hazy vocals of Anna Persson. They have a surprisingly skimpy Wiki-profile and the server of their main site is down...
Their influences range from classicist ABBA and Art Garfunkel to acclaimed alt-popsters Belle & Sebastian and Magnetic Fields. They've been plugging away for seven years, and 'European,' the album that grabbed my attention, is there third outing. The group's name comes from an old Serge Gainsbourg album track, les Sambassadeurs; I don't get the joke...
Our Song of the Week is not their single. That honor goes to the lovely, acousitc 'Days'...
Here's 'That Town,' a moody sepia video for a pretty and bouncy song from their 2007 second album, 'Migration'...
From their debut, a drawing-themed clip for 'Between The Lines'...
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