Gothenburg-based indie outfit Ljud & Bild was founded by co-frontpeople Karin Pallarp Nilsson (guitar, keys, vocals) and Anders Kjellberg. Expanding into a quartet that features Nillson, Klellberg, Erik Ridelius (keys, bass, percussion, vocals) and Yiva Holmdahl (drums, percussion), the Swedish outfit has become a mainstay in the local scene while developing a sound that meshes elements of shoegaze and krautrock.
The Swedish outfit’s latest single “Under Vattnet” is a brooding and slow burning track anchored around glistening and blocky synths, squiggling reverb-soaked bursts of guitar paired with a tight, driving groove. The song’s arrangement serves as a lush, Beach House-meets-post punk-like bed for Pallarp Nilsson’s and Kjellberg’s dreamy and ethereal harmonies.
“The mood is Twin Peaks for tadpoles and the song was written during a spring afternoon in the forest,” the band explains. “You fall asleep by a stream and disappear in a soft, warm light.”
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