The scene was bright and loud, and between the music, confetti, pyro (and the drugs) at the Swedes’ shows, often euphoric. Here, they set new standards for what success could look like for dance acts, selling out Madison Square Garden twice (the first time, in December 2011, in nine minutes), gaining mass popularity as the first generation of digital natives flocked to mega-festivals like Ultra and Electric Daisy Carnival. More than any other act in modern dance music, Swedish House Mafia set the tone for the EDM boom of the early 2010s, taking the massive “big room” house sound cultivated in Europe to the United States.
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Steve Angello of Swedish House Mafia photographed on June 24, 2021 at Delight Studios in Stockholm.
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Now they’re finally ready to talk about where they’ve been, what they’ve been working on and why, after one major false start, their real comeback is imminent. It has been eight years since they broke up with significant fanfare about that long since they sat down for an interview as a group and 20 months since they shut down their group social media accounts and essentially disappeared. But their presence out in the open as a trio, sharing a friendly meal with two journalists, is far more unexpected. The Swedes, as they’re known in the dance music industry, aren’t actually that unusual a sight here: Axwell and Ingrosso are both members of the country club and live nearby with their wives and children Angello and his family aren’t far away in central Stockholm. Twice during a dinner of burrata, French fries, mushrooms, fish tacos and garlic shrimp, Angello and Ingrosso go off to smoke thin Vogue cigarettes. His tattooed cohorts look more like off-duty rock stars: Sebastian Ingrosso, 38, has a booming laugh and wears stylish athleisure (black sweatpants, black T-shirt, gold neck chain), and Steve Angello, 38, the group’s sober member, drinks a ginger ale, occasionally pulling back his mane of graying hair to reveal the ink on his arms. But amid this sanctuary of Nordic gentility, in a corner of the patio closest to the designated smoking section, sits a trio of men instantly recognizable in Sweden and, once upon a time, to any dance music fan around the world: the game-changing threesome Swedish House Mafia.Īxwell (born Axel Hedfors), 43, is the fine-featured one with the dry sense of humor wearing a striped shirt and shorts and sipping a beer, he blends in easily enough. Since making their return with the singles “ Lifetime” with Ty Dolla $ign and 070 Shake and the solo “It Gets Better,” Swedish House Mafia have incorporated the bold orange coloring of a desert into their visual releases.On this humid evening just before Sweden’s Midsommar, the clean-cut members and their guests socialize on the outdoor patio, their small children sitting politely at a separate table.
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The final moment of the visual reveals the completed jacket which reads “Swedish House Mafia Live Coachella 2022.”Įarlier this week, the trio announced the upcoming collaboration with The Weeknd: “ Moth To A Flame.” The announcement visual shared on both act’s social media accounts featured the dark, blue-hued aesthetic more closely associated with The Weeknd. On their own social media, Swedish House Mafia shared a 19-second visual of a black bomber jacket being designed under the slams under an embroidery machine. Their inclusion was announced on social media where Coachella shared an orange-tinted photo of the trio walking through the desert towards the festival’s iconic Ferris Wheel. The EDM powerhouse group is the first act to be announced for the festival, which is already sold out of passes.