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Buildings & Trees

About Me

Buildings & Trees creates, arranges and records all their pop songs in The Cold Room, a yellow wooden cottage half an hours drive south of Stockholm, Sweden.We play "old man's indie", a mix of guitar based indie pop, alt-country and heavenly vocal harmonies. Wedding Present meets Belle & Sebastian meets The Band meets Beach Boys meets The Carpenters or something.Anyway, enjoy the music and let us know what you think.

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Member Since: 4/5/2006
Band Website: This page only
Band Members: Mats Hagbranth - guitar and voice Magnus Hazell - guitar and voice Anders Elfstroem - bass guitar and voice Fredrik Magnusson - tam tam tam tam, the little drummer boy
Influences: Badly Drawn Boy, The Band, Beach Boys, Beck, Belle & Sebastian, Ben Folds Five, Bonnie Prince Billy, The Cardigans, The Carpenters, Death Cab for Cutie, Devendra Banhart, The Divine Comedy, Donovan, The Go-Betweens, Grandaddy, Husker Du, Iron and Wine, Johnny Cash, Kings of Convenience, Lemonheads, The Magic Numbers, The Magnetic Fields, New Order, Dolly Parton, Pavement, Elvis Presley, The Shins, Stereolab, Sufjan Stevens, The Sundays, Tim Buckley, The Undertones, Air, Midlake, Wilco, Arcade Fire, Black Heart Procession, David Bowie, Brigit Bardot, Camera Obscura, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Essex Green, The Flaming Lips, Great Lake Swimmers, Hank Williams, Säkert, Jonathan Richman, Josh Rouse, The Kinks
Sounds Like: A Melody
Record Label: Des Batiments et des Arbres
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Summer's gone and work commence

After about 3 months summer break with sun and bathing the rehersals have started for the autumn. We have started recording and hopefully the songs will be published here on MySpace soon.
Posted by Buildings & Trees on Fri, 08 Sep 2006 01:27:00 PST

Wednesday coming up

Tomorrow, Fredrik is setting tiles in his new bathroom, Magnus is going to a wine fair (while on paternity leave!), Mats is correcting handouts and Anders is paying invoices at work. But when the even...
Posted by Buildings & Trees on Tue, 25 Apr 2006 01:01:00 PST

Ok, this time then?

The acoustic rehersal last week was cancelled due to Ester holidays and family obligations. Tomorrow we will give it a new try. Good night present time. See you in the future.
Posted by Buildings & Trees on Tue, 18 Apr 2006 01:53:00 PST

Lyrics ready for tomorrow

I just finished the new lyrics for an older song. I hope the new lines fit better than the old ones. We'll see at the rehearsal tomorrow. That's all for today.
Posted by Buildings & Trees on Tue, 11 Apr 2006 03:51:00 PST

Buildings & Trees starts the blog

Tuesday afternoon,Buildings & Trees starts the blog, as of today. We're writing lyrics today for the acoustic rehearsal tomorrow. The background voices has to be improved. That's the objective anyway....
Posted by Buildings & Trees on Tue, 11 Apr 2006 06:13:00 PST