Sweden's Labrador Preps 100-Track Anniversary Box
Includes Acid House Kings, the Radio Dept., Club 8, The Legends, Pelle Carlberg, Sambassadeur
Can't get enough of that Jens Lekman fellow? Peter Bjorn and John and I'm From Barcelona duking it out atop your last.fm charts? Drink yourself silly every afternoon to Frida Hyvönen? Cry yourself to sleep every night to El Perro Del Mar? MySpace friends with the Concretes, Hello Saferide, Blood Music, and Jenny Wilson? Looks like you've got it bad for Swede-pop.
Which means Labrador Records has just the thing for you. This Valentine's Day, the beloved Swedish imprint celebrates 100 releases and 10 years of serving up some of the best indie-pop on the planet with Labrador 100, A Complete History of Popular Music. The four-disc, 100-track set includes one song from every Labrador release to date (including a brand new Radio Dept. jam) and a huge booklet detailing the label's history and more. Puppy-eyed kids across the U.S. can pick it up for their sweethearts in late February via Darla distribution.
Whether you're in the mood for the sentimental delicacies of the Radio Dept. and Laurel Music, the cosmopolitan indie-pop of Club 8 and Sambassadeur, the delightful jangle of Acid House Kings and the Legends, the wry wit and quirkiness of Suburban Kids With Biblical Names and Pelle Carlberg, the gaze-y sprawl of Douglas Heart, or the indie-disco of Waltz for Debbie, Mondial, and Tribeca, Labrador 100 has it all.
Don't know what the hell we're talking about? Get acquainted by checking out the free mp3s Labrador is offering right now. They've been posting a song from each CD every week, and if you troll the Labrador mp3 archives, we reckon you'll find a bunch more there.
Labrador celebrates the release of the centennial mega-comp with a mega-party at Stockholm's Debaser on February 10. Sambassadeur, Suburban Kids With Biblical Names, the Mary Onettes, Lasse Lindh, and [ingenting] will perform, while members of Acid House Kings, Bubblegum Factory, SKWBN, and folks from the imprint itself will spin DJ sets.
The lovable label has a couple more feel-good releases on the way. On March 28, they'll treat us to Pelle Carlberg's In a Nutshell, while April 25 has the Mary Onettes' debut hitting shelves at the more sensible record shops near you. If you love the 1980s and haven't heard the Mary Onettes' "Lost" yet, please do so immediately.
Labrador 100, A Complete History of Popular Music:
01 First Floor Power - "Car, Travel Far!"
02 Acid House Kings - "This and That"
03 Starlet - "I'm Home"
04 Club 8 - "Missing You"
05 Lasse Lindh - "C'mon Through"
06 Leslies - "Ignorance"
07 Club 8 - "I Don't Need Anyone"
08 Waltz for Debbie - "He Loves Annie"
09 Leslies - "Dear Friend"
10 Los Fancy Free - "Honey Watch That Man"
11 Club 8 - "We're Simple Minds"
12 Lasse Lindh - "Bruised"
13 Ronderlin - "Reflected"
14 Airliner - "Before You Went Away"
15 Permer - "Charlotte"
16 Acid House Kings - "We're the Acid House Kings"
17 Waltz for Debbie - "Once Upon a Time"
18 Mondial - "Undeserved Disgrace"
19 Club 8 - "Everlasting Love"
20 Starlet - "When Sun Falls on My Feet"
21 Club 8 - "You and Me"
22 Céleste - "Start Anew"
23 Cinnamon - "Maybe in the Next Life"
24 Waltz for Debbie - "Flowers First"
25 Acid House Kings - "Sunday Morning"
26 The Radio Dept. - "Against the Tide"
27 Tribeca - "Teenage"
28 Aerospace - "The Great Divide"
29 The Legends - "Make It All Right"
30 Douglas Heart - "Expired"
31 [ingenting] - "Syster Dyster"
32 Afraid of Stars - "Not Today"
33 Laurel Music - "Sacred Heart"
34 Club 8 - "Cold Hearts"
35 Ronderlin - "She Stays at Home"
36 Edson - "A Pleasant Dream"
37 Jacqueline - "Live Is So Cool (That My Heart Goes Boom)"
38 Wan Light - "Landmarks and Houses"
39 Airliner - "Trying to Be Clever"
40 Tribeca - "The Sun Always Shines on TV"
41 The Radio Dept. - "Why Won't You Talk About It?"
42 Wan Light - "The Astronauts"
43 Edson - "One Last Song About You Know What"
44 Club 8 - "Saturday Night Engine"
45 Douglas Heart - "Smoke Screen"
46 The Radio Dept. - "Where Damage Isn't Already Done"
47 Douglas Heart - "A Question of Gender"
48 Acid House Kings - "Say Yes if You Love Me"
49 Wan Light - "Freedom Fighters"
50 Pelle Carlberg - "Go to Hell, Miss Rydell"
51 Suburban Kids With Biblical Names - "Trumpets and Violins"
52 The Radio Dept. - "Deliverance"
53 The Legends - "There and Back Again"
54 Acid House Kings - "This Heart Is a Stone"
55 Sambassadeur - "Between the Lines"
56 [ingenting] - "Gråt Inte Älskling"
57 Tribeca - "Her Breasts Were Still Small"
58 Suburban Kids With Biblical Names - "Funeral Face"
59 South Ambulance - "Die 5 Times Times 5"
60 Wan Light - "That Grim Reality"
61 [ingenting] - "Här Kommer Solen"
62 The Legends - "When the Day Is Done"
63 Laurel Music - "Dreams and Lies"
64 Suburban Kids With Biblical Names - "Rent a Wreck"
65 The Radio Dept. - "Pulling Our Weight"
66 Douglas Heart - "Always No"
67 Corduroy Utd. - "In a Dream"
68 Hanky and Panky - "Hurray"
69 Tribeca - "Solitude"
70 Acid House Kings - "Do What You Wanna Do"
71 Edson - "And Then She Flung Me the Truth"
72 Laurel Music - "Empty Feeling"
73 Corduroy Utd. - "Daddy's Boy"
74 The Legends - "Call It Ours"
75 [ingenting] - "Punkdrömmar"
76 The Radio Dept. - "The Worst Taste in Music"
77 Sambassadeur - "New Moon"
78 Irene - "Waterfront"
79 The Legends - "Play It for Today"
80 [ingenting] - "Släpp in Solen"
81 Loveninjas - "I Wanna Be Like Johnny C"
82 The Radio Dept. - "Pet Grief"
83 The Legends - "Heart"
84 Pelle Carlberg - "A Tasteless Offer"
85 Suburban Kids With Biblical Names - "Marry Me"
86 The Legends - "People Like Us"
87 The Mary Onettes - "Lost"
88 Irene - "Baby I Love Your Way"
89 Acid House Kings [ft. Magnus Carlson] - "Will You Love Me in the Morning?"
90 Loveninjas - "Keep Your Love"
91 The Legends - "Lucky Star"
92 Wan Light - "The Beehive Kid"
93 Sambassadeur - "Ice & Snow"
94 The Legends - "He Knows the Sun"
95 Loveninjas - "It's OK"
96 Irene - "Little Things (That Tear Us Apart)"
97 Pelle Carlberg - "Riverbank"
98 The Legends - "Today (Phone Edit by Les Espions)"
99 Sambassadeur - "Kate"
100 The Radio Dept. - "We Made the Team"
Which means Labrador Records has just the thing for you. This Valentine's Day, the beloved Swedish imprint celebrates 100 releases and 10 years of serving up some of the best indie-pop on the planet with Labrador 100, A Complete History of Popular Music. The four-disc, 100-track set includes one song from every Labrador release to date (including a brand new Radio Dept. jam) and a huge booklet detailing the label's history and more. Puppy-eyed kids across the U.S. can pick it up for their sweethearts in late February via Darla distribution.
Whether you're in the mood for the sentimental delicacies of the Radio Dept. and Laurel Music, the cosmopolitan indie-pop of Club 8 and Sambassadeur, the delightful jangle of Acid House Kings and the Legends, the wry wit and quirkiness of Suburban Kids With Biblical Names and Pelle Carlberg, the gaze-y sprawl of Douglas Heart, or the indie-disco of Waltz for Debbie, Mondial, and Tribeca, Labrador 100 has it all.
Don't know what the hell we're talking about? Get acquainted by checking out the free mp3s Labrador is offering right now. They've been posting a song from each CD every week, and if you troll the Labrador mp3 archives, we reckon you'll find a bunch more there.
Labrador celebrates the release of the centennial mega-comp with a mega-party at Stockholm's Debaser on February 10. Sambassadeur, Suburban Kids With Biblical Names, the Mary Onettes, Lasse Lindh, and [ingenting] will perform, while members of Acid House Kings, Bubblegum Factory, SKWBN, and folks from the imprint itself will spin DJ sets.
The lovable label has a couple more feel-good releases on the way. On March 28, they'll treat us to Pelle Carlberg's In a Nutshell, while April 25 has the Mary Onettes' debut hitting shelves at the more sensible record shops near you. If you love the 1980s and haven't heard the Mary Onettes' "Lost" yet, please do so immediately.
Labrador 100, A Complete History of Popular Music:
01 First Floor Power - "Car, Travel Far!"
02 Acid House Kings - "This and That"
03 Starlet - "I'm Home"
04 Club 8 - "Missing You"
05 Lasse Lindh - "C'mon Through"
06 Leslies - "Ignorance"
07 Club 8 - "I Don't Need Anyone"
08 Waltz for Debbie - "He Loves Annie"
09 Leslies - "Dear Friend"
10 Los Fancy Free - "Honey Watch That Man"
11 Club 8 - "We're Simple Minds"
12 Lasse Lindh - "Bruised"
13 Ronderlin - "Reflected"
14 Airliner - "Before You Went Away"
15 Permer - "Charlotte"
16 Acid House Kings - "We're the Acid House Kings"
17 Waltz for Debbie - "Once Upon a Time"
18 Mondial - "Undeserved Disgrace"
19 Club 8 - "Everlasting Love"
20 Starlet - "When Sun Falls on My Feet"
21 Club 8 - "You and Me"
22 Céleste - "Start Anew"
23 Cinnamon - "Maybe in the Next Life"
24 Waltz for Debbie - "Flowers First"
25 Acid House Kings - "Sunday Morning"
26 The Radio Dept. - "Against the Tide"
27 Tribeca - "Teenage"
28 Aerospace - "The Great Divide"
29 The Legends - "Make It All Right"
30 Douglas Heart - "Expired"
31 [ingenting] - "Syster Dyster"
32 Afraid of Stars - "Not Today"
33 Laurel Music - "Sacred Heart"
34 Club 8 - "Cold Hearts"
35 Ronderlin - "She Stays at Home"
36 Edson - "A Pleasant Dream"
37 Jacqueline - "Live Is So Cool (That My Heart Goes Boom)"
38 Wan Light - "Landmarks and Houses"
39 Airliner - "Trying to Be Clever"
40 Tribeca - "The Sun Always Shines on TV"
41 The Radio Dept. - "Why Won't You Talk About It?"
42 Wan Light - "The Astronauts"
43 Edson - "One Last Song About You Know What"
44 Club 8 - "Saturday Night Engine"
45 Douglas Heart - "Smoke Screen"
46 The Radio Dept. - "Where Damage Isn't Already Done"
47 Douglas Heart - "A Question of Gender"
48 Acid House Kings - "Say Yes if You Love Me"
49 Wan Light - "Freedom Fighters"
50 Pelle Carlberg - "Go to Hell, Miss Rydell"
51 Suburban Kids With Biblical Names - "Trumpets and Violins"
52 The Radio Dept. - "Deliverance"
53 The Legends - "There and Back Again"
54 Acid House Kings - "This Heart Is a Stone"
55 Sambassadeur - "Between the Lines"
56 [ingenting] - "Gråt Inte Älskling"
57 Tribeca - "Her Breasts Were Still Small"
58 Suburban Kids With Biblical Names - "Funeral Face"
59 South Ambulance - "Die 5 Times Times 5"
60 Wan Light - "That Grim Reality"
61 [ingenting] - "Här Kommer Solen"
62 The Legends - "When the Day Is Done"
63 Laurel Music - "Dreams and Lies"
64 Suburban Kids With Biblical Names - "Rent a Wreck"
65 The Radio Dept. - "Pulling Our Weight"
66 Douglas Heart - "Always No"
67 Corduroy Utd. - "In a Dream"
68 Hanky and Panky - "Hurray"
69 Tribeca - "Solitude"
70 Acid House Kings - "Do What You Wanna Do"
71 Edson - "And Then She Flung Me the Truth"
72 Laurel Music - "Empty Feeling"
73 Corduroy Utd. - "Daddy's Boy"
74 The Legends - "Call It Ours"
75 [ingenting] - "Punkdrömmar"
76 The Radio Dept. - "The Worst Taste in Music"
77 Sambassadeur - "New Moon"
78 Irene - "Waterfront"
79 The Legends - "Play It for Today"
80 [ingenting] - "Släpp in Solen"
81 Loveninjas - "I Wanna Be Like Johnny C"
82 The Radio Dept. - "Pet Grief"
83 The Legends - "Heart"
84 Pelle Carlberg - "A Tasteless Offer"
85 Suburban Kids With Biblical Names - "Marry Me"
86 The Legends - "People Like Us"
87 The Mary Onettes - "Lost"
88 Irene - "Baby I Love Your Way"
89 Acid House Kings [ft. Magnus Carlson] - "Will You Love Me in the Morning?"
90 Loveninjas - "Keep Your Love"
91 The Legends - "Lucky Star"
92 Wan Light - "The Beehive Kid"
93 Sambassadeur - "Ice & Snow"
94 The Legends - "He Knows the Sun"
95 Loveninjas - "It's OK"
96 Irene - "Little Things (That Tear Us Apart)"
97 Pelle Carlberg - "Riverbank"
98 The Legends - "Today (Phone Edit by Les Espions)"
99 Sambassadeur - "Kate"
100 The Radio Dept. - "We Made the Team"
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