Dance With the Devil

The Sounds — a Swedish group whose poppy, synthesizer-heavy music is unapologetically indebted to Blondie and Missing Persons — feature the coed talents of vocalist Maja Ivarsson, keyboardist Jesper Anderberg, bassist Johan Bengtsson, drummer Fredrik Nilsson, and guitarist Felix Rodriguez. The new wave throwbacks first banded together in 1999 in Stockholm, where they recorded much of the debut album Living in America. The record charted at number four the week after its Swedish release...