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: I have been listening to the Embassy since I moved to Gothenburg in 2002, and they will always remind me of me and my wife’s first apartment. We had their first album, Futile Crimes, on repeat for a year. This song is from their new album, and has an amazing, yet simple bass line, and those well-known strumming acoustic guitars.
Video after the jump.
