MPFree 19th May 2011

You don't need me to tell you that Sweden has a fine history of melodic pop so I won't. What I will do is draw your attention to the latest guitar drenched sonic slab of loveliness to emerge from central Scandinavia.

Stockholm based Maria Linden trades as I Break Horses and veers more towards early 90s shoegaze rather than the traditional shiney bright pop, with comparisons to early Slowdive and Ride.

Judge for yourself and download 'Hearts'. It's got a healthy beat.

By way of contrast you can immerse yourself in an entirely different rhythm as we trawl the history of breakdancing for today's Peoples' Playlist from 10.30 and an hour after that there's the highly regarded Philadelphia based singer Kurt Vile in session playing tracks from his new album Smoke Ring For My Halo.