Love Is All - Kungen

What this video is

Released in March 2010 on Polyvinyl Records, 'Kungen' (Swedish for 'The King') emerged from Gothenburg's vibrant indie underground at the peak of music blog culture. Love Is All were critically championed by the indie blogosphere and NME, representing a transatlantic appetite for abrasive, saxophone-driven post-punk with Scandinavian sensibility. The song's subject matter—an unexpected sighting of the Swedish king…

Why it matters

A defining artifact of the 2000s–2010s Swedish indie art-punk wave, 'Kungen' demonstrates how Gothenburg bands carried the aesthetic lineage of X-Ray Spex, The Raincoats, and Delta 5 into the blog era, filtered through a distinctly Swedish indie sensibility. The self-directed video reinforces the…

The director

Josephine Olausson is the vocalist and keyboardist of Love Is All, a five-piece indie rock band from Gothenburg, Sweden, formed in 2005. She previously performed in Girlfrendo alongside bandmates Nicholaus Sparding and Markus Görsch. As frontwoman, she…