The Embassy - i-d, 2013

"In the small but massively influential so-called Swedish Balearic scene that emerged at the start of the last decade, Gothenburg duo the Embassy – Fredrik Lindson and Torbjörn Håkansson – were unwittingly cast as pioneers. Similarly minded bands such as Studio, the Tough Alliance and Air France all emerged in the wake of the Embassy's excellent 2002 debut Futile Crimes, with both the Tough Alliance and Studio naming their respective record labels after the Embassy's songs. As befits their sound – lush, laid-back and gorgeously hazy – the duo don't seem to be in any urgent rush to cement their status at the forefront of any sort of scene, having not released an album since 2005's critically acclaimed Tacking."