Radula
Radula sprung out of a desire to create a space far away from the strains of the conservative och masculine stereotypes of the music scene. In their search they learnt new ways to play, hard and lost, naive and brooding, fun and serious, they wanted to shout loud and sing ugly. The band has previously released multiple singles and a cassette-EP on Lazy Octopus Records and will be releasing their new debut album LOVECHILD on the Gothenburg based label PACAYA records.
Radula is Hillevi Duus, Tove Möller and Ella Blixt, they also exercise their musical muscles in other bands such as Growth, Hunt and the indie pop band It´s a musical. The trio joined forces in the will to create music were everything is allowed, playful and painful. In the good old DIY spirit they have booked their own tours, stitched their own stage clothes, made their own merch. Everything they do they do as a group.
Their debut album Lovechild contains nine tracks about taking social responsibility, to know all the animals in the forest, idiots that erases your history, and what it´s like being a horse in a human´s body. The music is playful, honest, feministic, funny, blatant and fragile. You can label them as an indie pop band but you can also hear clear influences from new wave, riot grrrl, melodic punk, westcoast surf and middle school ballads.
The songs are written in a steaming barack in the legendary music mecka part of Sweden called Småland, in a basement of the main shopping street of Stockholm and finally put on tape in the abandoned industrial blocks of Gothenburg. The record is recorded with Johannes Mattsson (Slowgold). The album will be released on vinyl and digital with a song book illustrated by different artists.
Releases on PACAYA records
Lovechild (single release 1st of April 2020)