Edson

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(1998 – present)

Edson was formed by Pelle Carlberg in the summer of 1998, and he named the band after the great soccer player Edson Arantes do Nascimento, i.e. Pelé. The first couple of months the piano took a prominent part in the sound, giving the songs a tangible jazz pop flavour. Initially the band was Pelle’s solo project, but since then it has more and more developed into a democratic unity, with Pelle as the songwriter and lead singer.

In december of 1999 the band got the formation it has today: Pelle sings, Filip Carvell plays the acoustic and the electric guitar and sings, Helena Söderman plays the flute, melodica, harmonica, glockenspiel, Wurlitzer and sings, Mårten Josjö plays the electric guitar, Mats Deltin plays the bass and Ulf Lundberg the drums.

In 1999 Edson made about 30 live appearances, e.g. one at the demo stage of the Hultsfred festival in Sweden. After the performance Edson met John Cloud, who was interested in releasing something on his label Stormstreet records. In September a four-track EP was released containing the songs

Sunday, Lovely Sunday, I Didn´t Mean to be Mean,

22:22 {We Need a Quarrel, We Need a Fight} and Terry Whips.

The same year the band contributed with two songs on the compilation CD The Sound Of Young Sweden and with one song each on Sound Affects Magazine’s »Hultsfred special-CD« and the »Demoscenen«-CD of the Hultsfred festival. The Sunday, Lovely Sunday EP was also released by Matinée Recordings in the US, but with a slightly different tracklist.

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indie pop, swedish, twee, indie, labrador
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1	Sunday, Lovely Sunday free download	66
2	One Last Song About You Know What full track	51
3	A Pleasant Dream full track	38
4	When the Mind Suffers, the Body Cries Out full track	27
5	I Wanna Be Alone full track	22
6	And Then She Flung Me The Truth full track	20
7	Temper Tantrum 3 Min. full track	16
7	The Luck I Never Had full track	16
9	Up With The Lark full track	15
9	I Believe In A Thing Called Love	15
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12	September full track	14
13	Birth! School! Dole! Angst! full track	13
14	I Didn't Mean to Be Mean full track	12
15	Friends? full track	10

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radityamahdi wrote:
Monday afternoon

just cant stop listening to this

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mattribute wrote:
19 days ago

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allienballhead wrote:
August 2009

sundaaaay lovely sundaaaay

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jldeep wrote:
July 2009

Wow their music is beatiful ;)

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apropriadamente wrote:
May 2009

oun mimimi é uma graça

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svans wrote:
September 2008

let's not confuse boring with "feel good" music :) Forca Edson!

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maroschka wrote:
April 2008

would be great, if i could buy this music in germany, but there's no chance to get the music... any ideas, how to get the cds without having a creditcard?

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greatkate wrote:
February 2008

Does anyone else only get about 20 seconds worth when they try to download the full track of Sunday Lovely Sunday?

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TheAlexH wrote:
January 2008

These folk often sound like Belle & Sebastian, but a little less interesting.

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brusivalo wrote:
October 2007

viva a porra do brasil e a porra do futebol. anyway. they're good.

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Marshallmaddnes wrote:
August 2007

i like

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erikakevin wrote:
May 2007

their style lack of change so that let me feel a little boring.

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catatonic_diver wrote:
July 2006

Edson is playing at my town. YAY!

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