Hit The Waves (Labrador) is the new album from the Mary Onettes. It’s the long-awaited third full-length from the Gothenburg, Sweden, quartet, and it largely abandons the soaring pop that was the band’s hallmark on its 2007 self-titled debut and 2009’s Islands. Those albums earned the quartet comparisons to the Cure and Echo & The Bunnymen, although polished with a modern synth-pop sheen. Hit The Waves draws likewise from the ’80s, but instead of tuneful post-punk, it deliberately echoes some less trendy sources. The Mary Onettes—brothers Philip and Henrik Ekström, Petter Agurén and Simon Fransson—will be guest editing magnet magazine.co all week. Read our brand new feature on them.
Petter Agurén: When we played in Vigo on the Spanish west coast a couple of years back, we met a guy who started to talk about this place. He lived near Pioneertown where Pappy & Harriet’s is, and it seems like an amazing place. I have noticed that a lot of bands and artists are putting up shows there and I would love to visit for the barbecue and the music, and maybe even get an offer to play there sometime.
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