{"id":2522,"date":"2013-03-26T22:04:23","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T22:04:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-03-26T22:04:23","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T22:04:23","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/?p=2522","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s Say We Did &#8211; Hello Creatures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F83786393\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Formed in 2008, and after a couple of years lurking on the periphery of Stockholm&#8217;s music scene, Let\u2019s Say We Did began to gain momentum with the release of a trilogy of EP&#8217;s. In November 2011 the band released their debut, self titled, album produced by Let&#8217;s Say We Did and Pelle Gunnerfeldt (The Hives, Fireside, Bear Quartet, Hello Saferide). Upon release, Scandinavian media fell over themselves to shower praise on a still relatively embryonic band, drawing comparisons to the likes of Real Estate, Teenage Fanclub and Pavement. In support of the album, LSWD performed a string of shows around Scandinavia and have opened for, among others, acts like Xiu Xiu, Withered Hand, Ida Maria and Suburban Kids With Biblical Names. Ever-changing dynamics, explosive guitars, embellished pop melodies and droning melancholy are mixed and filtered through a cloud of distortion to form LSWD\u2019s lofi-aesthetic. From the bubbling atmospherics of opening track Into Wherever, to the languid, wilting, ambience of Hey Kid and the understated but no less powerful I Was There Too, Hello Creatures\u2019 one constant is vocalist Sebastian Fors\u2019 \u2013 who also has a project called Loose Cannon with Max Bloom of Yuck &#8211; pained Swedish drawl. On the forthcoming single Goodbye! (released Feb 18th) he sings \u201cThe earth is spinning in reverse, as things shift from bad to worse\u201d. It\u2019s a track draped in trademark LSWD melancholy. Recorded at their own studio in Stockholm, Hello Creatures picks up where the debut left off. Fors comments: &#8221;This time it&#8217;s more an album than a collection of songs. Where the common thread is more visible and the guitar-hooks has been held back in favour for a more dynamic and full-bodied sound.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Formed in 2008, and after a couple of years lurking on the periphery of Stockholm&#8217;s music scene, Let\u2019s Say We Did began to gain momentum with the release of a trilogy of EP&#8217;s. In November 2011 the band released their debut, self titled, album produced by Let&#8217;s Say We Did and Pelle Gunnerfeldt (The Hives, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":295,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press_releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/295"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}