Looks Like A Map

On a first listen Stockholm four-piece Melby might seem like a charming, fun little jangle-pop band - pay a little more attention however, and you'll nd their waters run a lot deeper than that. The band have all the ash and sparkle of your favourite indie band, but add an ability to touch moods and feelings with a meaning beyond most of their peers.

Finding comfort in a sea of uncertainty might be a good way to describe Looks Like A Map, the band's second album. The record captures Melby at a moment where they're growing as people and as a band, expanding the reach of their sonic horizons, and taking in deeper and heavier themes, trying to find a home in an often-alienating world. The music they made around that has a little touch of sorcery around it, sometimes soft as smoke, sometimes woozy and dream-blurred, sometimes crashing and explosive. But even through all that evolution, the heart and the soul have remained the same, and Looks Like A Map still has that Melby-feeling, of a band who put all of themselves into everything they make and their own blend of indie, psych, pop, rock and folk.