Easily navigating between NYC-era Lennon, Crowded House, Air Supply, Stereolab, The Beach Boys, XTC, Ben Folds, Roxy Music, Pink Floyd and maybe even Snow Patrol, Swedish indie act Dynamo Bliss starts to sound like something all its own – something very fresh and exciting. We strongly recommend a listen, or five.

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Irony. Indie Rock. Self-consciousness. Post-modernity = that delicious 90’s milkshake that indies can’t quite seem to outpace. I get it – everyone is rather sick and tired of turning on the Guy Smiley for the cynical critics. Well, it doesn’t really matter how you wrap it, so long as the lollipop tastes good.

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Mark Northfield’s music belies the work of a higher mind that deserves its place in the same pantheon as Aqualung, Antony and the Johnsons, Damien Rice or anything by Andy Partridge.

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