Hangin' Out In 100b

I’ve been listening to a lot of very sweet music lately – The Boy Least Likely To, Belle & Sebastian, The Research – which is kind of unusual for me. I’d normally take Iggy Pop over Cat Stevens any day of the week, if I was forced to make a choice.

So I was shopping for some new CDs and I’m From Barcelona grabbed me, given my newfound love of cheerful music. They’re reminiscent of The Polyphonic Spree, in that they’re joyous and fun and have 29 members, but these guys are Swedish and sing about chicken pox rather than reaching for the sun. I’m absolutely dying to get their debut album, Let Me Introduce My Friends (here’s a review from Pitchfork), but it’s not officially released in the UK for another two weeks. Much to my dismay, it is available on iTunes (in the Netherlands and UK, at least), but I’m going to force myself to wait. Since they, unlike most, have a myspace page, you really have no excuse not to give them a listen.