#anders hagström

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Ashbury heights performance last year on glass danse

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1, 14, and 26~! — eilistraeetion ♥︎

Yayyyy asks ❤️

Does your OC have a voice claim?

Yes, he does! Technically. I forget about it like 80 % of the time, but his voice claim is Anders Hagström from the music group Ashbury Heights. Not particularly deep, but pleasant.

14. A character your OC cannot stand?

Ohhh! Hmm.... Val'dran is honestly quite judgemental, for all his claims otherwise. But someone he can't stand? I'm really not sure anyone comes to mind 🤔But if you think on a boastful, loud and arrogant character who may have more of a bark than a bite, that's probably it.

26. What flower do you associate your OC with?

Coriander flower! They're simple but pretty flowers, unassuming in a way. Going by victorian flower language, they symbolise hidden worth/merit, which I feel suits Val'dran well; he too can be rather unassuming, but contains a wealth of things. Like anxiety. But also knowledge, loyalty and skill ;3

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Tre glada ”gossar” med varsitt MC kort idag… Anders Lindeberg, Andreas Wange och Martin Hagström var de lyckliga...!! Stort Grattis! 🏍🥇👍🏻☀️ #atcenter10år2017 #akademinstrafikcenter #intensivkurs #bilkörkort #körkort #moppekurs #amkörkort #mckort #intensivteori #trafikskola #atcenter (på/i AB Akademins Trafikcenter) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQbYMS9lemb/?utm_medium=tumblr

[fietehermans]

Review: Ashbury Heights - The Victorian Wallflowers (synthpop/futurepop)

Morticia Addams and the world’s most Swedish man

This may be the most niche review I’ve done so far. “But why,” I hear you ask, “ do you talk about this, when Maroon 5 are number 1 on Billboard?” And so I say: “Because from time to time, I like to listen to some decent pop music!” (This has been your regularly scheduled reminder that Maroon 5 blows.)

Anyway, back to Ashbury Heights. This Swedish goth-pop duo has been around for about ten years, and consists of vocalist/programmer Anders Hagström (which is the most Swedish name I’ve ever heard) and a rotating cast of singers. He’s on his third now, and she actually decided to stick around for a new album, the fourth in total, which is a welcome change. 

The album kicks of with the song Headlights, a powerful cut, incorporating elements of EBM and dubstep. Follow-up Firebird (because the phoenix wasn’t enough of a lyrical cliché already) is surprisingly hopeful for a band that once unironically produced a song called Suicide Anthem (I do not that one recommend: it’s not that good). These two songs also showcase a new dynamic in Ashbury’s sound, namely the increased role of singer Tea Thimé in the band. This may be for the better, as Hagström‘s incredible Swedishness includes a thick accent. On If You’re Shooting with the Left..., things get a little political, but disappointingly vague. The song Tomorrow Is Dead to Me might be the only song on this record I truly dislike, with its EDM-incluenced non-chorus, Hagström’s strange yelping vocals and house-tinged breakdown which sounds like it was lifted straight from We No Speak Americano, while other songs like Long Lost Dead and Gone or Domino are way better. Things go back to being a little dubsteppy on the haunting Corridor, before ending only bright Journey.

The lyrics are appropriately Scandinavian, in that they’re very literary, despite or perhaps because of some head-scratchers and grammatical quirks. Just listen to Firebird. First of all: why not call it Phoenix? “Firebird” sounds stupid. And secondly, not even a Greek would pronounce Icarus with an emphasis on the A.

To get further into my criticisms, the album is too long, with just thirteen songs taking an hour. Some of these songs could have easily been cut-down, since some of them tend to drag on. You might recall the Horrors’ last album V as being one of my favourite of last year, and it was also comparatively long, but that album experimented with texture and had really intricate instrumentation. Here, however, it’s just a way too long intro and repeating the chorus to the point of tedium. The more EDM-tinged songs are predictably weak, while some of the dubstep influenced were dated when this album was written and recorded, unless it had been shelved since 2014.

But on the whole, The Victorian Wallflowers is a batch of solidly-produced pop songs with some good lyrics, but marred by its crushing length and some dodgy musical decisions.

Overall score: 3.5/5

[soundjunglefan]

Die Schweden Bellaroush ab dem 28.04. auf Deutschlandtour!

“They have an edgy fuck-of-attitude that together with melancholic, dreadlock-smelling undertones takes a holdof you.” - GAFFA Bellaroush s Musik reicht von bewegenden Balladen zu fesselnden, energiegeladenen Uptempo Hits, die teilweise im Reggae verwurzelt sind und Spuren von Electronica und Hip Hop haben.  Die siebenköpfige Band hat nicht weniger als vier Sänger, die in kraftvollen Harmonien schlagkräftige Lyrics über Stärke und Schwäche, Liebe und Solidarität vortragen. Bellaroush haben über 180 Konzerte gespielt, davon 3 Touren über den ganzen Kontinent und 2 Touren in Indien. 2017 haben sie zwei neue Singles, drei Remixes und ein Video veröffentlicht. Momentan arbeitet die Band an Material für eine EP, die von Anders Lagerfors (Pale Honey) produziert und 2018 das Licht der Welt erblicken soll. Die Single “Sun Goes Down” mit einem Feature des Rappers Promoe wurde über 380.000 mal auf Spotify gestreamed. Thinner ist ein gezügelter, subtiler und irgendwie auch geheimnisvoll durchtriebener Track und gleichzeitig ein grandioser und bombastischer Popsong. Der Song bahnt sich seinen Weg aus dunklem und wirrem Gestrüpp raus auf’s freie und weite Feld und seine Geschichte lässt uns glauben, dass das für uns alle möglich ist. Eine Reise weg von Eindämmung und zweifelhaften Gedankenspielen hin zu Transparenz und Intergration. Thinner wurde von Moa Jonsson Länne und Magnus Hagström während einiger verspielter Jam Sessions in Moas Keller geschrieben. Unter dem Einfluss einer bekannten Filmreihe bekam der Song einen Arbeitstitel, der sehr lange im Raum hing. Auch nach der Kooperation mit dem Produzenten Anders Lagerfors und akribischer Arbeit des Komponistenduos an jedem Wort und jeder Note blieb der Name: Thinner. Moa & Magnus: ”It has been a lot of fun working with this song! It’s been a crazy combination of lustful creative play, and wrestling with each detail. The bridge is currently the favorite part to play in the rehearsing studio! It’s always fun to get to hit things with a stick when you’re not a drummer!” Bellaroush , die nach eigener Aussage normalerweise Synthpunkreggae spielen, machen mit diesem Song neue, erforschende Schritte auf dem Weg zu ihrem Nordpol. Die ”band of a thousand faces” spielt also auch weiterhin über jene Grenzen hinweg, die wir Genres nennen. Bellaroush auf Deutschlandtour: 28.04.18 – Hamburg, Markthalle 29.04.18 – Lüneburg, Anna & Arthur 30.04.18 – Kassel, K19 01.05.18 – Passau, Zauberberg 02.05.18 – München, Cord Club 03.05.18 – Würzburg, Kellerperle 04.05.18 – Erlangen, E-Werk 05.05.18 – tba https://open.spotify.com/track/2629vbZb1WXGXKWVDCks7L https://soundcloud.com/bellaroush/thinner-1 https://www.facebook.com/bellaroush/ http://www.bellaroush.com/   Read the full article

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Bellaroush (feat. Promoe) - Sun Goes Down https://youtu.be/Cyfa5cVWYmM SPOTIFY: http://open.spotify.com/track/2629vbZb1WXGXKWVDCks7L ITUNES: https://itunes.apple.com/se/album/sun-goes-down-ft.-promoe-single/id947124673 SOUNDCLOUD: https://soundcloud.com/bellaroush/bellaroush-sun-goes-down-feat-promoe FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/bellaroush SPOTIFY http://open.spotify.com/track/2629vbZb1WXGXKWVDCks7L ITUNES https://itunes.apple.com/se/album/sun-goes-down-ft.-promoe-single/id947124673 SOUNDCLOUD https://soundcloud.com/bellaroush/bellaroush-sun-goes-down-feat-promoe FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/bellaroush Sun Goes Down is Bellaroush's second single from the self-titled album B E L L A R O U S H. Album: B E L L A R O U S H (release 2015) Artist: Bellaroush Title: Sun Goes Down Producer: Anders Lagerfors Lyrics: Magnus Hagström, Moa Jonsson Länne, Promoe The single is released by SwingKids on Spotify, iTunes, Youtube, etc, and the video is made by Tildeh Hjelm. Promoe appears courtesy of David vs. Goliath, and The Silent Majority. The song is produced by Anders Lagerfors. www.bellaroush.com

[polyprisma-blog]

Ashbury Heights

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Ashbury Heights ist eine 2005 gegründete schwedische Synthie-Pop-Band von Anders Hagström mit wechselnden Sängerinnen. Ursprünglich bestand Ashbury Heights aus Anders Hagström und Yasmine Uhlin, die jedoch überraschend ihren Ausstieg aus der Band beim Out Of Lin...

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ashburyheightsofficial photographed by josefinejonsson

[themagpielife]

Charon Apollonides-Zajaczowski | 31 | King of Diamonds

Andromeda Apollonides-Zajaczowski | 31 | Six of Spades

Arachne Apollonides-Zajaczowski | 31 | Ace of Spades

Born only two and a half months after their father's death in a London hospital, the Apollonides-Zajaczowski triplets were raised in Spade Castle by their mother Urania with the help of their late father's best friend, Declan Chives, and their aunt Calypso Apollonides-Montrose.

Urania was always a little deliberately odd, to say the least, and Isaac, of course, had been exactly the same way. So really, no one should have been surprised that the triplets spent their childhood perpetuating the kind of weird pranks and games that earned them the moniker "The Owl Children." They had their favorite targets, namely the Ace of Clubs, and they all developed the vastly important skill of dropping their metaphorical bombs and then getting the hell out of sight. In the end, though, even the Owl Children had to grow up.

The girls stayed with their mother in the Spades, but Charon had always been drawn to their father's Suit, and he decamped for the Diamonds on their fifteenth birthday. It was in name only, of course, until he could live on his own, but even so, he'd risen up to Four by the time he was eighteen, and he kept rising, having inherited his own share of the Apollonides cunning and ambition. It brought him to the rank of Ten of Diamonds by the time he was twenty-seven, and made him King in an obstacle course run through Diamond Castle - well, maybe he had a small advantage there.

Meanwhile, at least one of his sisters in the Spades was mimicking his rise, though Arachne had no desire to be Queen of Spades. Ace, though. She remembers the last queen, Katya, laughing and smiling and saying that their mother would have been a brilliant Ace, and Arachne had always wanted to have even half of Urania's odd, sharp competence - so from the age of ten on, no other position would do for her. She beat Charon to the rank of Ten by a full year, and she positioned herself so that when the old Ace decided he wanted to retire - something she had absolutely nothing to do with, don't be ridiculous - Arachne was the natural choice to replace him.

Andromeda was Arachne's strongest support in the Spades, and her eyes and ears during her rise up the ranks, but she herself had no desire to go any further than the rank of Six she earned while her sister was earning Ten. Always a little quieter than either her brother or her sister, she was happy working in the library, organizing the Spade books and archives, and keeping her ears to the ground for both the Ace of Spades and the King of Diamonds. They might be in different Suits, after all, and their Suits might occasionally have their spats, but anyone who tried to split up the the unbreakable Apollonides-Zajaczowski trinity?

They'd find themselves regretting that decision

Previously: Meredith Hamilton | Talulla Fox

orphic-ophelia // visardist // sting-like-jelly

[theuselesslesbiansof]

You need to listen to this song it's so wonderful. 

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[agentkaz]

I kinda like this one

Anders Hagström, Ashbury Heights

[ashburyheightsofficial]

Ashbury Heights live 2014, at the Out of Line Weekender in Berlin. Photos by Marty Kasprzak and Lisa L Photography.

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