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  • Icons Creating Evil Art is thrilled to announce the recent signing of the enigmatic Vancouver songstress Ché Aimee Dorval.

    · By Mattias Forsgren

    Icons Creating Evil Art is thrilled to announce the recent signing of the enigmatic Vancouver songstress Ché Aimee Dorval.  With a partnership that sees the UK arm of ICEA represent Ché for the world, fans can look forward to a series of stunning releases, delivered with the same raw power & style that was so evident with Che's ICEA debut 'Blood Red Son'.   About: Ché Aimee Dorval was raised in Vancouver by her mother, a plethora of hippie Aunts, punk rock Uncles and a colourful extended family. Think Little House on the Prairie meets the Lost Boys. Ché's childhood was one of constant creativity and...

  • Sweden's electro queen EMMON releases second single from her first full-length album since 2014

    · By Mattias Forsgren

    Sweden's electro queen EMMON, aka Emma Nylén, returned to the Electronic Body Music Scene after a 5 year long break in 2019. After releasing 4 stand alone singles under the working name "Under construction", Emmon is now back to reclaim her throne with brand new album "RECON". Dropping it's first single 'Prurebloods' in June, featuring post punk icon Emanuel Åström from Agent Side Grinder, Emmon is now preparing for her second single 'Machines' to be released in September 2022. She tells us; “The song Machines is a simple declaration of my constant love for the electronic music scene. About how much I love to be inspired and create music with different...

  • Introducing Austin-based singer-songwriter Sean Keel with new single 'corn palace'

    · By Mattias Forsgren

    “The whole thing was a freak accident,” Sean Keel says of the unlikely set of circumstances that led to the release of the Austin-based singer-songwriter’s raw, starkly evocative record, A Dry Scary Blue, with the independent Stockholm-based  label, Icons Creating Evil Art.  “I’ve got four records on Bandcamp; basically no one has listened to any of them; and now I’m putting one out with a record company. An actual record company! From Sweden!” A Dry Scary Blue introduces a distinctive, wholly individual singer-songwriter who, despite living in a legendary roots-music mecca, has honed his craft far from the public eye.  Keel’s raw, evocative compositions...

  • Lazy Queen move into a new chapter with latest single '243, New moon!

    · By Mattias Forsgren

    As we await the follow up to Lazy Queen’s refreshingly impressive EP “A Human Reaction”, the Norwegian-New York bubble punk hybrids are welcoming a new era with their new single “243, New Moon”. Set for release on Swedish tastemaker label Icons Creating Evil Art, the new single sees the band reignite their partnership with collaborator Morten Øby at Taakenheimen Lydriket in Oslo. Appearing as a more relaxed version of Lazy Queen, the new single is nevertheless loaded with emotionally-confronting lyrics and earworming guitar melodies from the off. Simmering out the self-antagonistic air evident in the band's previous work, "243, New Moon'' is no less passionate than before...

  • Lustans Lakejer släpper idag titelspåret från kommande albumet Mörk Materia som släppts den 23e sep!

    · By Mattias Forsgren

    Lustans Lakejer släpper titelspåret från kommande albumet Mörk Materia  New wave-ikonerna Lustans Lakejer släpper 23 september sitt efterlängtade nya studioalbum "Mörk Materia". Upptakten inför albumreleasen har bestått av singlarna “Lyx”, “En gång när jag var 17”, ”Den fjärde mannen”, en tolkning av Ulf Lundells ”Rialto” och ”Jag kan läsa mellan raderna”. Nu når uppladdningen sin kulmen när de släpper sista singeln från albumet – titelspåret "Mörk Materia".Den nya singeln är dunkelt suggestivt mästerverk; farlig, poetisk och sexig. Produktionen är polerad till fingertoppskänslig perfektion, så som kännetecknar samtliga låtar från det nya albumet –  ett hantverk signerat producent Jan Lundkvist.Lustans Lakejer startade som ett punkband 1978, men valde snabbt en annan väg...

  • Internet Friends release a lo-fi post-punk remix of 'Rice Krispies' from Philadelphia's own Ron Gallo Out Aug 26 on Icons Creating Evil Art

    · By Mattias Forsgren

    Internet Friends have been getting a lot of buzz lately since the release of their twisted single “Rice Krispies” earlier this summer, including spins on BBC Radio 6 Music, and Nels Hylton at BBC Radio 1 on the show 'Future Alternative', Jack Saunders at BBC Radio 1 supported the "cereal based indie banger" on his evening show, TotalRock, RBB Fritz and charting on Amazing Radio. The single even entered the ESNS Emerging European Chart. Now the Internet Friends receive a lo-fi post-punk remix of 'Rice Krispies' from Philadelphia's own Ron Gallo, who comments:- "This was the first time someone asked me to do a remix for them, so thanks to internet friends for their bravery in having zero context for what i would do/how...