The Swedes are masters of several musical niches: Metal, spiky new wave garage rock, wistful and delicate indie pop and catchy synth-inflected dance pop. I don’t have ear for metal but the other 3 vague categories are well represented here. I purposely haven’t include ABBA because they almost transcend and typify Swedish music.

• 30. Billie the Vision and the Dancers
• 29. Fever Ray
• 28. jj
• 27.The Hives
• 26. Love Is All

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