Last month IRC featured the Swedish indie label Labrador Records and one of the bands in the playlist mix was The Legends. Now the band is back with another great track titled “You Won” from their new album.
Listening to this song, there are elements of rock and pop, but as the band’s Wikipedia entry states, they don’t even know what genre their music belongs to, although they cite a strong influence from the C-86 post punk (one of the forerunners of indie) sound of the 1980s.
Philip Ekstroms of Mary Onettes helped produce “You Won”, reportedly adding “deliciously doomy 80s-esque drum sounds to the song’s anthemic qualities”.
The Legends are well-known among rockers in Sweden and the UK; in fact, Swedish Pop Review tagged the band as “absolutely the best band to emerge from the Swedish indie scene since The Hives.”
“You Won” – The Legends from Over and Over
The next song was an advance release from this archived post:
“Always The Same” – The Legends from Over and Over