What a week it’s been for Swedish House Mafia. After last night’s release of their long-awaited debut album, Paradise Again, the legendary electronic music trio have another first in the works: the first-ever real-time DJ set hosted on Spotify. The streaming giant is reportedly hosting an exclusive Coachella event tonight, April 15th, live from the Indio desert. Fans will be able to tune into a live DJ set by Swedish House Mafia directly on the band’s Spotify artist page. “We’re excited to partner with Spotify for a special album release celebration with our fans on Friday, April 15, as we release Paradise Again and return to the stage after so long this weekend,” Swedish House Mafia said in a joint statement, per Digital Music News. “It’...
And just like that, they’re back. It’s hard to believe we’re just now hearing the debut album from Swedish House Mafia. Sauntering at the pinnacle of an eruptive EDM boom in the early 2010s, the trio had reached the promised land on the heels of their many generational dance anthems. But a fractured dynamic in the band led to its shocking disbandment, which deflated the electronic music community like a left hook from Mike Tyson. And as Sebastian Ingrosso, Axwell, and Steve Angello explored solo endeavors, the group’s detachment ultimately settled in as an axiom that their once-harmonic relationship had gone irretrievably sour. But even the most broken things can heal with time. That brings us to today, when Swedish House Mafia finally released Paradise Ag...
The hype surrounding Swedish House Mafia‘s debut is bubbling over. The latest development in anticipation of their debut album comes in the form of its tracklist, which the iconic trio revealed today via social media. The long-awaited Paradise Again will feature 17 songs, including collaborations with A$AP Rocky, Connie Constance, Mapei, Seinabo Sey and more. Prior to 2021’s comeback single “It Gets Better,” Swedish House Mafia hadn’t released new music since 2012’s Until Now compilation, which featured a number of generational dance anthems, like “Don’t You Worry Child.” Now experimenting with a darker, more techno-inspired sound, they recently dropped the Paradise Again single “Redlight,” which features legendary Poli...
Swedish House Mafia have dropped the final bread crumb on the trail to their long-awaited debut album, Paradise Again. The album has been a long time coming for Axwell, Sebastian Ingrosso and Steve Angello of the legendary supergroup, whose disbandment a decade ago shook the dance music community to its core. Prior to 2021’s comeback single “It Gets Better,” Swedish House Mafia hadn’t released any new music since 2012’s Until Now compilation, which spawned generational dance anthems like “Save the World” and “Don’t You Worry Child.” According to a press release issued to announce the music video for their recent collaboration with Sting, “Redlight,” Paradise Again will officially drop on April ...
When Steve Angello first proposed the idea that Swedish House Mafia‘s reunion work should be a full-length album, band member Sebastian Ingrosso admitted he wanted to jump out a window. In an illuminating interview with NME, Swedish House Mafia discussed what fans can expect from the the iconic dance music trio’s new era. Ingrosso elaborated that while the trio was previously on a hamster wheel of releasing single after single, the pandemic’s onset gave them nothing but time to invest in their biggest output yet. “Swedish House Mafia have never made an album before, and historically it takes us a long time to even make a song,” he said. “We’re really happy with what it’s become, though—we can’t wait to give it to the world.̶...