Vampisoul is very excited to announce the arrival of our latest artist, Brazilian psych-soul-garage-pop combo Garotas Suecas. Sweaty, funky, exotic, committed, Garotas Suecas (Swedish Girls, in Portuguese) hail from São Paulo, Brazil and offer up a hearty, full-throated stew combining the best elements of their country’s homegrown tropicalia with Anglo-American soul and freakbeat. While they are often compared to their 1960s forbears – including legendary fellow Brazilians Os Mutantes, Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso – Garotas Suecas are having the sort of early career success that the 21st Century uniquely affords: before even releasing a full-length album, through widely circulated singles, EPs and touring, the band generated an extraordinary amount of excitement from bloggers and critics. The acclaim has emboldened and energized the group, and their heightened creativity is audible throughout their anticipated debut album, Escaldante banda, which Vampisoul is now releasing worlwide excluding the US. Escaldante banda is a perfect spring dance record, a collection of vintage-flavoured songs that sound incredibly funky and fresh. The album captures the band’s unique brew of Otis Redding soul grooves and tropicalia craziness, with thick grooves, bursts of fuzzy guitars, scorching female backing vocals, big horn sections and heavy psychedelia. The band comprises Guilherme Saldanha (vocals and harmonica), Irina Bertolucci Chermont (keys), Perdido (bass), Sesa (guitar) and the Paoliello brothers, Nico (drums) and Tomaz (guitar). They formed in 2005, when they met as teenagers at an open mic night. They rehearsed in the home of an area poet, self-funded three EPs, toured Brazil, and improbably landed an MTV Video Music Award. Garotas Suecas are especially beloved for their sweaty, infectious live show, which they are bringing to Spain in late May and early June for two weeks of dates. We are down for playing anywhere where the crowd is down for shaking very hard to our music.