New Music: Laundry Boys – American Confidence

Inventive and entertaining rhyming couplets are just some of the highlights on American Confidence, the latest single from Swedish duo Laundry Boys. The track features on their Yatzy Music Vol. 1 EP and is inspired by their time in New York, which is also where the band formed.

Talking about the downtempo-aligned track, they reveal, “Americans sometimes have a self-confidence that you can be both irritated and jealous of. There can be quite a bit of this ‘here I am!’ mentality, which is a bit shocking to us Swedes who are more ‘excuse me, here I am.”

They add about the EP, “When you start a completely new project, everything is possible, in both a good and a bad way. It has taken us time to find a vibe we like and how we like to make music. We’ve scrapped a lot of good songs along the way because they’re not the right kind of good songs. Now there are five lovely little creations left that go well with dice games, red wine hangouts, and other relaxed get-togethers.”

Yatzy Music Vol. 1 is out now and streaming on YouTube, Apple Music, and Spotify. It’ll be followed by a second, companion EP titled Yatzy Music Vol. 2 in early 2024. For news on that, head to the band’s Instagram page.