The Melancholy Connection

Renowned Swedish punk outfit, Millencolin, celebrate twenty years with the release of 'The Melancholy Connection'. This assemblage of b-sides, a follow up to 1999's 'The Melancholy Collection', features two brand new songs and twelve rarities spanning from their break-out album, 'Pennybridge Pioneers', through to today. The CD is paired with a ninety minute DVD that takes fans inside the making of 'Pennybridge Pioneers' with never before seen archival footage, interviews with the band and live performances. The two new tracks hold up the classic Millencolin sound with energetic pop infused punk, combined with driving beats, anthemic choruses and irresistible melodies that will please diehard fans and new converts, alike.

"We've released a lot of songs since Pennybridge Pioneers that were not released on our previous albums, so we thought it was about time to put them all on one," says Erik Ohlsson. "We recorded a bunch of new songs in our own studio where we also recorded our previous album Machine 15 from 2008, and picked two of them for this release. We're really excited about the new stuff we recorded! We're taking it back to our roots and mixing it with the new sound we've developed over the last years." "We had a lot of footage archived from the Pennybridge Pioneers recording that we shot ourselves," says Ohlsson. "No one has ever seen any of that footage and since we have new live footage from the 10th anniversary tour of the album, now would be a perfect opportunity to make somthing out of it."