
Holmes
We grew up in the ’90s during the years when some of the greatest hip-hop albums ever were made and when there was at least one punk show every week in V鋘ersborg, a small town by any standard. We also started our first bands during that time and did everything from releasing records and printing t-shirts to booking tours and organizing concerts by ourselves. We released several EP’s and didn’t consider doing it any other way until 2008 when our paths crossed with Black Star Foundation, one of the few surviving Swedish labels from the punk heyday, and realized that we could still do the same thing but together with other people. So we took the best parts of the musical environment we grew up in and combined with spending the following years listening too much to albums by the likes of Red House Painters, The Cure and Tim Buckley that might explain how we ended up with an album like Burning Bridges in 2012.\r
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It could be argued that we’ve ha...