reviews

Bright and hopefully romantic - "Is This Love?" by Sweden's Red Sleeping Beauty is just the song we needed for cold and rainy afternoon. Jaunty keys and jangling guitars in a concise musical cup of yearning emotion. the song is the third in the band's 2024 project of a song a month. And this month brings an additional treat as the first three songs have been offered as the three-song Is This Love? EP by Matinée Recordings. —When You Motor Away

Red Sleeping Beauty is a long-standing indie bedroom pop band that started in Stockholm in 1989. They have recently returned with their new single “Is This Love?” It’s the third single released in their “one song a month series” that they are doing all of 2024. It’s a brisk and charming slice of jangly dream pop in the vein of Belle & Sebastian and The Pains of Being Pure At Heart with a genuine melancholic sensibility and warm charm. This is what dream pop is all about. —We All Want Someone To Shout For