The Magnettes Release Debut Full-Length Album 'Ugly Youth' Today

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THE MAGNETTES self-produced Ugly Youth and worked alongside American mixer Christian Cummings, whose credits include Tiësto, Icona Pop, Florence + The Machine's Isabella Summers and OneRepublic's Brent Kutzle. Ugly Youthhighlights the band's signature sound: a rebellious spirit, unfiltered and unapologetic views, paired with sugary sweet, infectious beats.

"We're reclaiming the word 'ugly,'" declares Sanna. "Why does beautiful have to be the standard? Why can't anything that is not totally perfect be cool? We have no regrets. We're saying exactly what we want to say."

"There's some sort of Northern rebellion," adds Tomas. "We don't want to be your average singing self-obsessed diary entries. We aim to do something bigger. However, we want to do it without moving to Stockholm, London, or L.A. and writing songs about beaches and being super fit. Because what's interesting about that?"

Although Ugly Youth marks the group's first LP, THE MAGNETTES have released a series of singles, "Bones," "Killers In A Ghost Town," "Hollywood," "Sad Girls Club", which have received praise from Perez Hilton, Idolator, PopCrush, The 405, Kick Kick Snare, Wonderland, Galore and more (see below).

The seeds of rebellion first became planted when Rebecka Digervall and Sanna Kalla met at 6-years-old in their small town Pajala in Sweden. THE MAGNETTESfondly call this city of 2,000 home and it's the birthplace of their infectious and inimitable glitter punk pop sound. By age 14, Rebecka had written a plethora of songs for them as a duo and in 2012 they began performing across Europe and Russia. They've performed at several festivals overseas, as well as Canadian Music Week and SXSW and CMJ here in the States and just performed this week (6/28) at Milwaukee's Summerfest as part of the Emerging Artists Series. Back home in Sweden, they have been the subject of a documentary, "Pajala State Of Mind," and are currently being followed for a new reality series called "Min Report" to air on SVT, the largest broadcasting company in Sweden, and are in top rotation on P3 public radio.

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