New Music: Club 8 – Echoes of Our Time

A new year appears to be marking a shift in tone for those mysterious Swedish indie-poppers, Club 8.

Echoes of Our Time remains focused on indie melodies and the honeyed melancholy of Karolina Komstedt’s vocals, but she and bandmate Johan Angergård drive their sound over new terrain here.

It does look back to an era when indie-pop was something very different – post-punk bass lines set to an electronic beat overlaid with a jangle pop guitar that is given the slightest hints of reverb. Echoes of Our Time has the hallmarks of some iconic bands – mostly the careworn whimsy of Belle and Sebastian – but the classic Club 8 feels somewhat harder, tougher even, for all that the lyrics talk about cold days, spending the day in bed, and watching the snow fall down. If you like Dubstar and Client, be sure to have a listen.

You can hear Echoes of Our Time and more music from Club 8 on Bandcamp and Spotify. They’ve released ten of their 2025 singles on a vinyl album, Seasonal Echoes – find out more here.