Two weeks ago I was listening to my Spotify Discover Weekly, not thinking much of it, when Spotify played me a 2000s indie rock song similar to much of the music I already listen to, that I enjoyed, so I added it to a playlist and left it alone. I honestly forgot the song even existed until later that week when I was listening to that playlist and it came up again. Once I remembered how good that song was I listened to a bunch of the other songs Spotify recommended to me based on it, and I discovered a new genre; 2000s Swedish Punk Rock.

I did not even realize this band was Swedish until I was listening to the other songs recommended to me and they weren’t in English, something that really confused me for about thirty seconds. But the music overall was very good, and there seemed to be a lot of these 2000s indie punk rock bands in Sweden making great music, but they all had very little amounts of monthly listeners. Since then, I’ve been exploring the discographies of bands like The (International) Noise Conspiracy (~25,000 monthly listeners), Fireside (~8000 monthly listeners), Bob Hund (~72,000 monthly listeners), and The Bear Quartet (~3000 monthly listeners). So I guess the point of this post is to get out there and listen to music from other countries, especially those seemingly without big music scenes because you never know when you are going to find the next 2000s Swedish Punk Rock.