New music for the one-track-minded…

While their neighbors to the west tend to fixate on doom and gloom, Swedes see life through honey-tinted glasses. Take Korallreven, for example, a fledgling Stockholm band that deftly reconciles such disparate influences as 90s rave, Hawaiian rhythms and disco lite to create a sound as sweet and beachy as a lullaby (it’s summer somewhere in the world, right?). They lay it on thick in this carefree little ditty, As Young As Yesterday, that just might inspire you to do what digging out your old skateboard and dirty Vans couldn’t: remember teen-hood.

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