News
Pleasure Due Out November 20 via Labrador
Nov 04, 2015
By Christopher Roberts
Swedish duo Club 8 (Karolina Komstedt and Johan Angergård) are releasing their ninth album, Pleasure, on November 20 via Labrador. Now they have shared another song from it, “Late Nights.” More
Pleasure Due Out November 20 via Labrador
Oct 23, 2015
By Christopher Roberts
Swedish electro-pop duo Club 8 (Karolina Komstedt and Johan Angergård) are releasing their ninth album, Pleasure, on November 20 via Labrador. Now they have shared another song from it, “Skin.” More
Above the City Out April 2013 Via Labrador Records
Jan 16, 2013
By Laura Studarus
Club 8 will return this April with their 8th studio release, Above the City. Since three months is a long wait for anything (particularly well-crafted pop) the Stockholm-based duo has given us a first taste in the form of a video for album cut, “Kill Kill Kill.” More
Stockholm Belongs to us Out Now
Jul 05, 2011
By Laura Studarus
Swedish label Labrador Records recently released a free compilation for American fans. We have the details.
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Includes Exclusive Unreleased Tracks by Rose Elinor Dougall, Motorifik, and Club 8
Jan 14, 2011
By Laura Studarus
Every issue of Under the Radar includes a free digital sampler that can be accessed via the download code printed in the issue. Our Year-End issue’s sampler (which is sponsored by Shure) includes exclusive unreleased tracks by Motorifik, Rose Elinor Dougall, and Club 8, as well as songs by of Montreal, Plants and Animals, The Radio Dept., Tame Impala, Wild Nothing, Sufjan Stevens, Twin Shadow, Lost in the Trees, Beach House, Avi Buffalo, and Owen Pallett. We have the details. More
Dec 16, 2010
By Laura Studarus
For Under the Radar’s 8th annual Artist Survey we emailed some of our favorite artists a few questions relating to 2010. Pick up a copy of Under the Radar’s Year End issue for interviews with: The Antlers, Bon Iver, Caribou, Club 8, Delphic, Rose Elinor Dougall, Gayngs, Hot Chip, Lost in the Trees, Love is All, The Love Language, Mogwai, of Montreal, Okkervil River, Yoko Ono, Owen Pallett, Plants and Animals, Mark Ronson, Superchunk, Tame Impala, Vampire Weekend, Sharon Van Etten, and Vivian Girls. Today we posted web exclusive surveys with Pepper Rabbit, Delphic, and Johan Angergård (Club 8/Acid House Kings/The Legends). More
Sep 30, 2010
By Laura Studarus
Just in time for us all to start longing for the hot days of Summer, Club 8 has unveiled delightfully rhythm-heavy track, “Closer Now,”— a perfect epilogue to recently released album, The People’s Record. We have the mp3
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Aug 30, 2010
By Wendy Lynch Redfern
Under the Radar‘s Summer 2010 Issue is a special issue named the Wasted on the Youth Issue that features musicians and actors talking about their childhood memories and things they loved when they were kids. We’re also posting web-exclusive essays that were not printed in the issue, including this one by Club 8’s Johan Angergård, who’s also a member of The Legends and Acid House Kings. More
Band Featured in Spring Issue of Under the Radar
May 14, 2010
By Kyle Lemmon
We heard (and saw) the video for Club 8’s “Western Hospitality” last week. Today, we have the great privilege to premiere an MP3 of Club 8’s “Shape Up!” to our readers. More
The People’s Record Out May 18th
May 11, 2010
By Laura Studarus
On May 18th, Club 8 will release their newest album, the Brazilian/Afro-pop influenced The People’s Record. While we’ve still got a few days to go, the Swedish duo is busy striking up a party mood with their video for single “Western Hospitality.” We have the clip. More
Jari Haapalainen Manned Albums by The Concretes, Camera Obscura, and others
Oct 19, 2009
By Laura Studarus
Swedish dream-pop duo Club 8 (Karolina Komstedt and Johan Angergård) is returning to the studio to start work on album number seven. They are working with producer Jari Haapalainen (Camera Obscura, The Concretes). More
Interviews
Angergård on 2016's Best Albums, Trump and the Election, and Leonard Cohen
Jan 30, 2017
By Mark Redfern
For Under the Radar‘s 14th annual Artist Survey we emailed some of our favorite artists a few questions relating to 2016. We asked them about their favorite albums of the year and their thoughts on various notable 2016 news stories involving either the music industry or world events, as well as some quirkier personal questions. More
Angergård on His Favorite 2015 Albums, Streaming, the Election, ISIS, Star Wars, and More
Jan 11, 2016
By Mark Redfern
For Under the Radar’s 13th annual Artist Survey we emailed some of our favorite artists a few questions relating to 2015. We asked them about their favorite albums of the year and their thoughts on various notable 2015 news stories involving either the music industry or world events, as well as some quirkier personal questions. Here are some answers from Johan Angergård, who is in a multitude of bands (including Club 8, The Legends, and Eternal Death, who all released new albums in 2015). More
May 19, 2013
By Laura Studarus
It’s eve of Club 8’s eighth album release, Above the City, and Johan Angergård is contemplating his musical hero, Morrissey. More
Dec 15, 2010
By Under the Radar Staff
For Under the Radar’s 8th annual Artist Survey we emailed some of our favorite artists a few questions relating to 2010. Pick up a copy of Under the Radar’s Year End issue for interviews with: The Antlers, Bon Iver, Caribou,Club 8, Delphic, Rose Elinor Dougall, Gayngs, Hot Chip, Lost in the Trees, Love is All, The Love Language, Mogwai, of Montreal, Okkervil River, Yoko Ono, Owen Pallett, Plants and Animals, Mark Ronson, Superchunk, Tame Impala, Vampire Weekend, Sharon Van Etten, and Vivian Girls. Here’s a survey from Johan Angergård of Club 8, The Legends, and Acid House Kings. More
Apr 03, 2010
By Laura Studarus
Immersing yourself in a new culture can be a time of discovery—new food, new friends, new language—and for Karolina Komstedt (vocals) and Johan Angergård (guitar, synths) of Club 8, new inspiration. Leaving home became unexpectedly crucial to the creative process of their seventh album The People’s Record, a project whose origins began in 2008, during a rare Club 8 international tour that brought the Swedish pop duo to Brazil for the first time.
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Reviews
Dec 23, 2015
By Matt Conner
Swedish indie pop pioneers Club 8 celebrated 20 years as a musical couple (which included several years as an actual couple) in 2015. That experience and chemistry are easy to track on the veteran band’s release of Pleasure, a new eight-song LP that More
May 22, 2013
By Darren Loucaides
Club 8 started out as a twee-pop outfit before gradually obscuring and veering towards electronics. On the duo’s eighth outing, Above the City, the electro-pop sound is very ‘now,’ but the Scandinavian indie-pop roots lend it distinctiveness thanks in part to Karolina Komstedt’s saccharine vocals. More
May 18, 2010
By Laura Studarus
Since 1996, Club 8 have been churning out sophisticated pop in their native Sweden with nary a Stateside accolade. (Anyone? Anyone?) For The People’s Record—their seventh—the duo (Karolina Komstedt and Johan Angergård) have expanded their melodic sonic pallet with traces of Afro-pop, bossa nova, and South American jazz. More
