Ebb Life Is On TV Video

Stockholm-based singer-songwriter Ebb releases the single, `Life Is On TV` on March 19 on Gaymonkey Records. The track is taken from the debut album, `Loona,` which is set to drop on 26 March.

`Life Is On TV` punctuates understated electronica with dusty guitar twangs: Ebb`s haunting vocal skims the delicate clicks with the track underpinned by crunchy bass. With the single comes a remix package of previous single, `I`m All Made of Music,` which is nudged onto the dancefloor by the white-hot production talent of Jori Hulkkonen, Melnyk and Tilliander. Hulkkonen`s strutting electro take smashed the Music Week Cool Cuts Chart, and Melnyk`s mix rubs stalking bass against glinting synths. Tilliander closes, looping acid squelches around minimal clicks.

The album `Loona` has already been critically acclaimed in Ebb`s native Sweden, earning him a Manifest Award for `Best Electronic Album,` Sweden`s most prestigious independent music award, and spending the first month of its release in the Swedish iTunes download top 20. Ebb`s music is a soundscape of discreet electronica filled with glitchy beats, warm melodies and a gentle pop sensibility akin to the likes of Four Tet, Sigur Rós, Múm or The Broadway Project. Not that he likes to pigeonhole it: "I don`t really like to label it. It depends on who`s listening to it and what they get from it - it`s up for interpretation."

Ebb says his music reflects an important part of his life. Growing up in Luleå, a tiny industrial town at the northernmost tip of Sweden, he spent his youth surrounded by wide horizons and forests, which made moving to the city quite daunting. With the noise, traffic and everything else that comes with the city, Ebb struggled with the contrast but found solace in his music: "I discovered a balance, of living in the city and of longing for the nature and landscape of the north."

Ebb discovered music at an early age when he heard his dad playing the guitar. "He only knew four chords, but he taught them to me and I did the rest." Even as a child Ebb didn`t copy other people`s songs, always preferring to make up his own. Joining his first band at the age of fifteen, he played in a slew of outfits until he finally left the world of rawk behind four years ago: "I wanted more creative control."

A friend had a computer with a music-making programme and Ebb, now ensconced in Stockholm, started to experiment with his song writing. It was here that he finally found his sound: "I knew this was the music I wanted to make, it felt right; I felt like I had come home musically." This pushed him to invest in his own computer, make a studio in his apartment and start to write the songs that would later form his debut album `Loona`.

And beyond all this? Ebb says this album is just the beginning: "I want to reach the conscious, insightful listener who is tired of everything shallow and without substance."

Watch Ebb - Life Is On TV video above!

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