Formed back in 1995, Stockholm-based duo Club 8 — Karolina Komstedt (vocals) and electronic music producer, artist and Labrador Records founder and label boss Johan Angergård — initially began as a recording project, before expanding into a full-fledged touring band.
Throughout their nearly three decade history, the Swedish pop outfit has a long-held reputation for being sonically restless and notoriously difficult to pigeonhole. Their full-length debut, 1995’s Nouvelle saw the duo tackling Bossa nova. 1998’s The Friend I Once Had saw the duo exploring electronic pop and electronic dance music. The Swedish outfit’s next three albums — 2001’s self-titled, 2002’s Spring Came, Rain Fell and 2003’s Strangely Beautiful — saw the duo dabbling with old-school-inspired soul.
2017-2018 may have arguably been one of the more prolific and busiest periods of Angergård’s lengthy career: With his solo recording project The Legends, he released Nightshift. Djustin, the Labrador Records founder and label boss’ collaboration with Rose Suau released their full-length debut, Voyagers. He closed that period out with Club 8’s 10th album, 2018’s Golden Island, which featured “The Hospital,” one of the most industrial/goth-leaning tracks the pair have ever released.
Over the past year, the Swedish duo have released a batch of singles, including “Sucker,” which saw the Stockholm-based duo dabbling dance floor friendly, hook-driven 80s New Wave nostalgia.
The duo will be releasing their 11th album A Year With Club 8 through their longtime label home Labrador Records. And along with the album announcement, the Swedes shared the album’s latest single, “Something’s Wrong With My Head.” Seemingly nodding at Joy Division/New Order and The Raveonettes, “Something’s Wrong With My Head” continues a run of material dabbling in 80s New Wave nostalgia while being a woozy, blissful and downright escapist little bop.
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