The new wave of Swedish punk is sweeping over the world and is perhaps best represented by KNUGEN FALLER, a band from Umeå in the very north of the social-liberal paradise Sweden.
The band formed in late spring 2003 over a bowl of tomato soup at Umeå's Food Not Bombs, a place where the local misfits, hippies, punks, dreadlocks, proggare and cheap bastards meet every Sunday. Three of the members were living together in the same apartment at the time, and some of the members were already playing together in other bands. Since all the band members had been playing in various bands before the idea was to start a band where every member had to start from scratch by playing an instrument they never played before. This is obvious when you listen to the bands two releases.
KNUGEN FALLER roughly translates into "The Knig Falls" which is a reference to the fact the king of Sweden, Karl XVI Gustav, is a dyslectic and often misspells his name and title.
Their main influences are Göran Persson, Stefan Granberg and The Regulations but musically KNUGEN FALLER sounds more like Polly Styrene singing along to a "Bloodstains across Sweden" compilation.
KNUGEN FALLER are sick of the stagnation of punk that we have seen in the last years and what it has become. Punk today seems to be sugar coated, dyed black haired guys with colorful whole sleeves singing about how they kind of like girls and kind of don't on one side, and on the other side boring introvert hippies growling over badly played d-beat metal hardcore. KNUGEN FALLER is something else and if you don't get it you are too old, or maybe too young.
In 2004 KNUGEN FALLER released their debut single "Skellefte stadshotell ep" on Cage Match Federation and got tons of fantastic reviews in the underground punk press. Maximum rock n roll listed the EP as one of their favorite releases of 2004.
In the tradition of the new wave of Swedish punk, KNUGEN FALLER have so far only released vinyl singles, but plans are made for a full length CD and LP in a not too distant future.
"Inte som ni" is the title of KNUGEN FALLER's latest release. "Inte som ni" is a four track vinyl ep released by Cage Match Federation and Ny Våg records. KNUGEN FALLER also did a short tour in Sweden and Norway this spring together with Ny Våg label mates The Regulations.
KNUGEN FALLER believes that everybody's got something to say and that everybody should turn their inner conflicts into a real political conflict between themselves and the powers that be.
FUCK SOCIETY AND ITS PERFORMANCE MORALS! Here's KNUGEN FALLER!

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