Galaxy Gramophone is a new record label, owned and operated by Jim K and Lisa B-K, a music-obsessed married couple with two kids, hiding out in the tundra that is East Central Illinois. After quite a bit of research we have come to the conclusion some mighty fine rock music is coming out of Sweden, Norway...hell...all of Scandinavia. And as much hype as the "Artic Circle" scene has gotten, there is so much more to discover, we promise. Find out everything there is to know about Galaxy G via our website and Scandinavian music in general at our webmaster Avi Roig's Scandinavian Music News and Resource site Its A Trap.com


Check out the first release from Glalaxy Gramophone

The Isolation Years-'Inland Traveller’ is the debut album from Scandinavian quintet Isolation Years. The band, from Umeå in northern Sweden, employs a wide array of traditional folk (accordion, saw, mandolin) and rock instrumentation (vocals, guitar, bass, drums) filtered through an elemental and psychedelic spiritualism. It’s equal parts American Music Club (solemn roots pop), Neutral Milk Hotel (supernatural folksinger blues), and the early albums by The Soundtrack of Our Lives (electrified classic rock mysticism); with broad hints of The Beatles, Neil Young, Calexico, and Bright Eyes to boot. The band’s unswerving attention to depth and detail within a song, along with vocalist Jakob Nystrom’s haunting voice and arcane lyrical imagery, recall some of finest “folksingers” alive today (Eitzel, Mangum, and Lundberg especially).