Not all of Stereogum’s favorite sounds conform to what folks expect us to cover. In this space, resident Bananafish fetishist Brandon Stosuy focuses on bands, albums, singles, and villages in Sweden that may otherwise pass by unnoticed. This installment’s virtual milk crate contains Shit And Shine, Grails, and Humanfly.

Shit And Shine’s new one Kuss Mich, Meine Liebe is my favorite British-born record in recent memory: It’s a distorted, distended, brown-tinted mass of fuzz and muck sectioned via titles like “Biggest Cock In Christendom,” “The Germans Call It A Swimming Head,” “Toilet Door Tits,” and “Mr. And Mrs. Gingerbread Hawaii.” It’s all great, but we might as well get started where the record begins.

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