Alternative/Rock
Blues Pills Return with Kick-Ass Track “Birthday”; New Album En Route
Firebrand Swedish rockers Blues Pills return with a long-awaited kick-ass new album ‘Birthday,’ to be released on August 2nd, 2024.

Firebrand Swedish rockers Blues Pills return with a long-awaited kick-ass new album, Birthday, to be released August 2nd, 2024, on Throwdown Entertainment/BMG.
The title track, “Birthday,” will be released as a single on streaming platforms this Friday, March 8th. The single will also be released as a limited edition 12″ vinyl for Record Store Day this 20th April 2024.
Sometimes Brody Dalle other times more Janis Joplin, Elin Larsson delivers raw, effortless charisma with stellar rich vocals throughout the new record. Accompanied by Zack Anderson on guitar, André Kvarnström on drums and Kristoffer Schander on bass supplying infectious grooves that won’t quit. The band let the melody and Elin’s vocals shine while encouraging the jumbo-sized hooks to thread through the eleven tracks, mainly produced by Grammy-nominated Freddy Alexander, creating a career-defining record full of beauty, fire and swagger.
Blues Pills said of the upcoming record:
“With this album we truly let ourselves be free, leaving all the boundaries and expectations behind to write music we love. We wanted to capture the raw and authentic feeling from when we play live on an album yet pushing ourselves to create and write the best work we’ve ever done. Elin was pregnant during the recordings, and what isn’t more rock’n’roll than that? To create human life and music.”
Majestically featuring her pregnant body front and centre in the photoshoot for Birthday, Elin has naturally and unashamedly stepped into her power. Knee-high arse-kicking boots at the ready, power stances levelled up, Elin is ready to hit the big time with her incredible voice and tight-knit band Blues Pills, baby cradled in one hand, mic in the other. Don’t you love it?
The title track, “Birthday,” tells the tale of an incident that took place on tour in Mexico on Elin’s birthday. She invited the whole band and crew out to celebrate her birthday and things turned sour when a waiter decided to ruin her birthday.
Vocalist Elin Larsson said of the experience:
“I don’t know what the f**k this guy was thinking or doing, but he took liberties and crossed personal boundaries acting in a very disrespectful way.”
When the band got home, they wrote the new single “Birthday.” Larsson continues:
“It has some humour to it. The first verse of the song is written from the perspective of the aggressor, but this is not a song to feel like a victim to, this is a shit-kicker of a tune with a f**k you attitude to get wild to.”
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