Gothernburg, Sweden's sweet-voiced Sarah Assbring has teamed up with Rasmus Hagg of the duo Studio this time out, for the third album from El Perro del Mar, Love Is Not Pop.

"Album" might be pushing it, if you're looking for length, as this is seven new songs plus three remixes. Following up 2008's From The Valley To The Stars, which had oodles of small little ditties about desire and deities, "L is for Love" is just as romantic and lyrically ambitious, but deeper and more concerned with human amore. Besides a splendid if sobering adaptation of author-theologian G.K. Chesterton poem "It Is Something (To Have Wept)" Assbring (and Hagg) have crafted a stainless examination about what makes our bodies warm, and what turns our hearts cold. 

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I had asked some music-related friends to send me their best of 2008 lists with the promise that I'd post them here. The first to send their list in is Becca Minkoff, the lovely and brilliant assistant marketing director and 3D webmaster for The Triple Door.

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at The Triple Door

El Perro Del Mar and Lykke Li are two very different performers but they both played great, well-received sets. I wouldn’t have minded if the night went on forever.

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Even with pop superstar Robyn deciding she'd rather spend time with Baba Wawa and Whoopi, we are still getting plenty of love from the Swedes.

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It's kind of like -- and I don't mean this in any critical way -- a musical version of the Teletubbies, which I used to zone out to after a ferocious night of partying.

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Featuring new releases from Atmosphere, Flight of the Conchords, El Perro Del Mar, Tokyo Police Club, and more. When life gives you lemons, you paint that shit gold.

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Your astrological forecast for October 2006 told in CD reviews, featuring Bettie Serveert, Drydin, El Perro Del Mar, Geoff Reacher, Heartless Bastards, Lambchop, Noel Ellis, Page France, Pleasurecraft, Say Hi to Your Mom, Scanners, & the Wedding Present.