about Scandinavian melancholy; it’s brutal to live in Sweden during the winter. Te darkness, the cold… it’s very isolating and it gets to you. If you’re already in a dark place mentally, the weather just makes it can get hard to handle. We tend to write most in the winter. Tere’s something beautiful about it too. If you listen to Swedish pop songs, even the most cheesy popular ones, there’s almost always a sadness luring in the background. When you're on a foreign tour what do you most miss about Sweden? For most 'Brits abroad' it's Marmite and 'proper tea' but what culinary and cultural treats do you long for on the road?
called Jo Rose, he just released his debut album. Other contemporary UK musicians we love are Bat For Lashes, James Blake, Laura Marling, Johnny Flynn, Slow Club. We’re very inspired by UK music. Johanna, do you still have a penchant for German Techno? No, I don’t, ha ha. It’s so funny how it says I had a big love for German techno on our Wikipedia page and now that gets brought up in interviews all the time. I had a crush on this goth punk guy when I was 15, so I got into the same music as him and started dressing like him to impress him. But it was only for about six months, a very brief period of intense German techno-listening!
“We’re very inspired by UK music”
I miss Swedish coffee a lot; it’s just so good and strong. I’m always disappointed at the coffee outside of Scandinavia. Mostly though we miss home cooked meals. We bake our own gluten free bread with almond and coconut flour that is very good! We both miss Swedish TV, but we try to keep up with what’s going on at home by reading newspapers online and watching shows we like online. It’s tricky though! Apart from established favourites what will you be playing on the tour bus this time around? Are there any contemporary UK artists you think we should check out? Will be playing a lot of Hurray For Te Riff Raff, Angus & Julia Stone, Amason Samantha Crain, Willy Mason. When it comes to UK bands, we love the sister trio Te Staves, they’re insanely good at harmonizing. We also love a singer songwriter
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In the past you've collaborated with Conor Oberst and Bright Eyes as well as Te Fleet Foxes. Are there any musicians out there who you'd still love to work with and can we expect any more collaborations in the near future? Tere are so many talented musicians out there. We’ve been so lucky to get to meet so many of our musical heroes. We’re thrilled we got to sing a little with Jenny Lewis on her latest record ”Te Voyager”. We hope we can get to perform with her live some day. We’d also love to sing with Emmylou Harris. Or Leonard Cohen. You never know! Along with fellow countrymen Goat and Robyn, you got to play (and went
down a storm) at our local Latitude festival this summer. Did you get to enjoy any of its abundant treats or was it straight in and back on the tour bus after your set? It was a very hectic day. We got to Latitude straight from the airport in Norway and had only slept about five hours. So unfortunately we didn’t get to hang around. We passed out after our show! We have been to Latitude before though and it’s a wonderful festival, one of our favorites. You just finished your tour in America and played the famous Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. As evident fans of country music is this something of a dream come true? It totally was a dream come true! Te venue has such a history you could feel it in the atmosphere. We got goosebumps just stepping into the room. It was one of the best shows on the tour. We did a special performance of Will You Miss Me When I’m Gone? by the Carter Family, to honor the country music tradition and its roots. Just to get to hang around in Nashville meant a lot to us. We got to go to the Country Music Hall of Fame where we saw Maybelle Carter’s old guitar and Gram Parsons’ Nudie suit. It was magical. You've also been invited to play on some of the big nightly talk shows that are a fixture out there. How was it performing to a potential audience of millions? It was awesome! We’ve been so lucky to get to go on both Conan and Letterman twice. Tose are shows we watched as kids. Both of those guys have been super nice to us. We get extremely nervous playing on TV but we managed to get through it alright. It’s weird because you spend all day there just waiting to perform and then it’s over in three minutes. Tose three minutes feel like a second!
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