Mattias
Huss

Foreign albums
Björk: Homogenic
More focused, more intense, more everything.
Radiohead: OK Computer
A schizofrenic and fiercely original album crammed with quite beautiful angst-pop that sets your hair on end.
Squarepusher: Hard Normal Daddy
Discover the true genius of musical surrealism and irrational beats. Tom Jenkinson is the court jester of techno.
Laika: Sounds of the Satellites
Brilliant spacefunk in the Kraftwerk/Stereolab tradition with a laidback stream-of-consciousness-like feeling.
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: The Boatman's Call
Nick Cave isn't a singer, he is a poet, a madman and a visionary. This time around the poet has won some ground from the madman.

Foreign songs
Spiritualized: Broken Heart
A larger-than-life sort of love song. Preferrably played very loud inside huge italian cathedrals.
Tindersticks: Rented Rooms
It still smells like whiskey, but this time we're talking about a really expensive brand.
Courtney Pine: Tryin' Times
Jazz made simple for us who never understood what all the old people were talking about. Cooler than ice cream.

Foreign live artist
Spiritualized
Almost a religious experience.

Foreign newcomer
Erykah Baduo
Soulful soul, which is more than can be said of most soul musicians.

Foreign artist
Lee Perry
The greatest studio magician of our time.

Swedish albums
K-pist: Voltage Controlled
Ass-kicking party music for computer gamers.
Kent: Isola
Ambitious depressions, at times as compelling as The Smiths and The Cure used to be.
Hab: Mapod
Hab shows a playful and entirely uncompromising approach to electronic music and creates distinct tapestries of ragged sounds.
Koop: Sons of Koop
This record is about fusion, about melding jazz, ambient, techno and folk music into a mesmerizing unity.
Tiamat: A Deeper Kind of Slumber
Much too good to be goth in the nineties.

Swedish songs
Bob Hund: Ett fall och en lösning
Strangely unique music with intelligent lyrics.
Esbjörn Svensson Trio: In my Awakening
Low key high quality jazz for the lounge lizards.
He Said Omala: Solid or Vanish
Hypnotic soundscapes from the soul of the machine.

Swedish live artist
The Junction
Very white people play very black funk music in a hip hop vein.

Swedish newcomer
Friend
Swedes can beat the british at their own game. Drum'n'bass is now Gothenburg territory.

Swedish artist
Koop
Koop is quite simply the soul of Sweden mixed with the soul of England. It doesn't get much better than that.