SWEDEN's Home Grown Music (no, I don't mean ABBA)

A few lines from way up north:
Sweden has vast fields of Home Grown Music: bands who fervently issue their original stuff on their own small labels (often based at the kitchen table). Many of them writing & singing in the native Swedish language - and many doing it English: to make the songs more accessible for non-Swedes of course, but also for the simple reason that many Swedes enjoy toying with and creating in the multilayered English language.

I have listed four Swedish home grown bands working in the English language, all well worth a listen. Although they all do original songs I have added some 'labels' 'n' references which have occurred to me. Don't let them stop you - you might not agree!

T.H.U.M.B.E.
http://www.myspace.com/thumbeband
(guess they grew up on Pink Floyd, Traffic, Cream)

DOWNTOWN RAMBLERS
http://www.myspace.com/emelouandthedowntownramblers
(bluegrass/country-ish with female lead vocalist)

FLAMMAN
http://www.myspace.com/flammanspace
(think Buffalo Springfield, Neil Young, Beatles)

GRAPELAND
http://www.myspace.com/grapeland
(R.E.M., Wilco, Neil Young - that's what they list themselves)