I don’t really do reviews-on-request any more. Except when I get a very nice email, like that one Mattias, who runs Cosy Recordings, sent me a couple of weeks ago, which contained two CDs-converted-to-mp3s.

After-school Sports is Alice from Stockholm (she is/was also in The Never Invited To Parties and Strawberry Fair) who does the girl that is probably so shy that no one cared to talk to her at school, but now makes great music in her bedroom-kind of electornic indiepop. Sweet, subtle and soothing. A bit like Action Biker and a bit more like Bobby Baby. There are nine songs on A short melodrama, most of which I really like, with Smile being my favourite. That’s actually a cover of a Lily Allen-song, but you knew that, as you, unlike me, follow the charts and read hipster blogs.

Johan Hedberg (Mark 5:37) is a suburban kid with a biblical name (and, apparently, namesake of a professional ice hockey player) and sounds like one would expect a SKWBN-going-electronic solo project to sound like: quite singer-songwriter-ish for an electronic act. Except that he sings in Swedish. It’s a lot less introvert than After-school Sports, which, for that reason, I prefer better, but it’s definitely not bad either and has its interesting moments.

The label, by the way, is related to a Gothenburg club night and has a blog too.