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A Smile and a Ribbon

Debut album out now!

About Me


FINALLY! Our debut album The Boy I Wish I Never Met is out now on Shelflife Records . The album comes as a multipackage containing a vinyl single with four new songs ("Then I Felt Your Cheek", "Miracles", "Holding Hands", "Sugar Daddy"). Buy the album or download the title track "The Boy I Wish I Never Met" through Shelflife's homepage. For people living in Sweden it could also be a good idea to check out the great label and web shop Fraction Discs . They are selling the album for only 125 kr!
ABOUT THE RELEASE: "A Smile and a Ribbon is Rebecca Mehlman and Martin Lindqvist, a Swedish combo who was more-than-willing to take the unlucky fate of Rebecca's failed relationship and set it to music. The result is bubblegum pop most sanguine. But watch out, this sweet spoonful of sugar might give you a toothache if you're not careful. The Boy I Wish I Never Met is a pure P!O!P! album that draws influences from 1950's girl bands, 90's twee, and a whole lot of quirky personality. Its a not-so-innocent look at childhood fancy and lost love."
- Shelflife Records, September 2007.
Download three high quality mp3s from the album:
The Boy I Wish I Never Met
Book Cover
Pebbles
or listen to another song, "One-Night Wonder", on Shelflife's myspace-page!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/4/2006
Band Website: asmileandaribbon.com
Band Members: Rebecca Mehlman & Martin Lindqvist.Live band: Svante Karlsson, Elin Karlsson, Krister Bladh and Kajsa Tretow.
Influences: Language of Flowers, Magnetic Fields, Free Loan Investments, the Angels, Kahimi Karie, Hefner, Pulp, Talulah Gosh, the Retromantics, Wanda Jackson, Connie Stevens.
Sounds Like: the musical equivalent of a lemon pie.
Record Label: Shelflife
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

The Boy I Wish I Never Met now on last.fm!

If you want to listen to our debut album "The Boy I Wish I Never Met" but don't a) have the money to purchase it or b) like the idea of screwing a small indie band by downloading t...
Posted by A Smile and a Ribbon on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 09:24:00 PST

Some reviews from the London show

12th April @ Horse & Groom in London. With Cats on fire & Pocketbooks Our first international gigs went pretty well. For those of you who weren't there we've put together some reviews. We'd al...
Posted by A Smile and a Ribbon on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:08:00 PST

UK-Tour in April (more dates needed!)

In April we will go on a really small UK-tour! - 12th April we play in London together with Cats on Fire (http://www.catsonfire.net) and Pocketbooks (http://www.pocketbooks.org.uk). Venue TB...
Posted by A Smile and a Ribbon on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 04:52:00 PST