Adam has the Libertines, I have Mando Diao. I was lucky enough to acquire a copy of the Swedish quartet's sophomore effort, Hurricane Bar. The record, the band's follow-up to 2003's dynamite Bring 'Em In, is already out in Europe and Japan, but won't see US soil until March 2005, when Mute Records will put it out. Simply put, the new album is spectacular. The band have gone from brash mod-rockers to mature pop songsmiths, as evidenced with the following two songs: the first, Hurricane Bar's single; the second, an epic love song:
Mando Diao - God Knows Mando Diao - You Can't Steal My Love UPDATE: If you had trouble downloading the MP3s before, or the download time was horrendously long, please try again. Adam mirrored them on faster servers.