Pallers

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Pallers
General information
Genre (s) Twee-pop , electronica
founding 2008
Website www.pallers.se
Current occupation
Johan Angergård
Synthesizer, vocals
 Henrik Mårtensson

Pallers is a Swedish indie pop duo from Stockholm , consisting of Johan Angergård and Henrik Mårtensson.

history

Johan Angergård and Henrik Mårtensson are from Åhus , Sweden . Pallers is a neighborhood on the outskirts of Åhus, where Henrik Mårtensson grew up. Angergård and Mårtensson have known each other since they were young.

Johan Angergård founded the band Acid House Kings in 1991 together with his brother Niklas and Joakim Ödlund . In the late 1990s, the three founded the record label Summersound Recordings , which merged with Bengt Rahm's Labrador Records in 2001 . Today Johan Angergård runs the label's business. Johan Angergård and Karolina Komstedt have been the Duo Club 8 since 1995 . In 2003 Johan Angergård formed a new band called The Legends .

Henrik Mårtensson is a musician and photographer. In 1992 he was a founding member of the band Poprace . After their dissolution, he founded the group Starlet in the mid-1990s with two musicians from Poprace and two other musicians . The group split in the mid-2000s.

In 2008, Angergård and Mårtensson founded the Pallers duo. They produced their debut EP Humdrum in Spain. Humdrum was released on Labrador in the winter of 2008/2009 and the title track became an instant hit. The equally successful single The Kiss followed in 2010 and the single Arctic Hymn around Christmas of the same year . In the spring of 2011 the duo completed their debut album The Sea of ​​Memories . The recordings of the album cover a period of three years and were made in Pallers, Stockholm , Miami , La Mar and Cape Town .

style

Mårtensson has a preference for ambient , trip-hop and electronica , while Angergård has a preference for twee-pop . As a duo they combine these styles.

Discography

Albums

  • 2011: The Sea Of Memories (Labrador)

EPs

  • 2008: Humdrum (Labrador)

Singles

  • 2010: The Kiss (Labrador)
  • 2010: Arctic Hymn (Labrador)
  • 2011: Come Rain, Come Sunshine (Labrador)

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