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Last summer Sebastian has visited Nyhetsmorgon with some pieces of his new music which were presented in acoustic so it was hard to judge what we should expect. But finally those tracks were released on new Sebastian's album "No Red Line" and Sebastian's back again but this time to present new songs - latest single "Sunday Morning" and "No Red Line" with full live band.

Sebastian Karlsson who was already giving some fresh sneak peeks of his upcoming new stuff this summer in Nyhetsmorgon has finally released brand new single "Sunday Morning".
Epic drums, heavy synth-sound and dramatic melody, new track has turned to be quite far from Sebastian's earlier presented Melodifestivalen-entry "No One Else Сould" and even further from all that pop-rock stuff he did before so it seems we've got a fresh trend of Swedish pop-artists wishing to radically change their direction trying dark electropop-sound with a slight taste of Robyn "Body Talk" period. You can also check very nice acoustic version of the song below.

Don't you think we didn't hear about Da Buzz (one of the greatest Swedish pop-projects ever) thousand or million years? No? Well however I do (though it's just 3). Recently I was more than excited to read on scandipop twitter that soon we can get a new single. Before it I was quite sceptic about their return at least this year. The reason is quite hot activity of side-projects of both Pier and Per (what a shame Annika couldn't break through solo during this pause), today I'd like to present them as they are really brilliant.

Per Lidén has started his rock-project Renegade Five back in 2005 but their successful debut album "Undergrounded Universe" (#8 + Grammis nomination as Best Hard Rock) was released only in 2009 with a bunch of fantastic singles (Save my Soul, Darkest Age, Running in your Veins, Love Will Remain, Shadows) with hard rock sound but the same catchy lovely tunes which you can expect from Swedish songwriters (you could listen "Seven Days" originally on Helena Paparizou's album before). Band has already started to record their second album with Roberto Laghi (producer of In Flames) and promise its release very soon so I'll come back to them very soon and wanna tell about another project.

This year time has come for Pier Schmid's project and he also decided to reject his dance-pop roots for showing his rock-side in a new band Broken Door that started quite successfuly as well. Actually Broken Door is duo consisting of Pier and Tobias Östlund and Pier here also plays the part of composer leaving vocals for Tobias. This is less aggressive and more romantic and poppier rock with great melodies and powerful vocal, sure you can hear the touch of emotional and beatiful Da Buzz's pop here also and it's amazing. Single "Angel" being released in April has reached #29 in official chart and constantly floated around in iTunes chart also. The band also plans another single "Sunday Morning" as international release, let's wish guys all the luck with it!