8hands Featured Artist: El Perro Del Mar
Just a few days ago we wrote about Irene and mentioned some of Sweden best pop acts. Aside from these great artists, there's another Swedish pop maker you should get to know- her real name is Sarah Assbring, but the name you need to remember when you go buy her album is El Perro Del Mar, the name of her solo project and musical aspect of her life.
El Perro Del Mar is Spanish for "the sea's dog", whatever that means, and I wonder why these Sweden guys like Spain so much, that they're presenting themselves as if they were actually Spanish. For those of you who wonder, I'm talking about the great Swedish band I'm from Barcelona.
Anyway, Spanish or not, El Perro Del Mar makes beautiful and touching music. She has a special way of sounding really depressing and real naïve at the same time. Sometimes I think she reminds me of Camera Obscura, and that's like the biggest compliment I could ever give.
I found this video of her on YouTube (Embedding was disabled by request, so just jump over to Youtube) where she's playing live and I just fell in love - I even liked the way she apologize when something went wrong. If you haven't heard of her yet, you should definitely check her out.



























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