Rock ’n’ Roll Highschool by Teddybears STHLM

Rock 'n' Roll Highschool, released in 2000 on MVG, came from Stockholm's Teddybears STHLM, a group that had started life as a hardcore punk band called Skull before Patrik Arve, Joakim Åhlund and Klas Åhlund steered it somewhere much stranger.

The record sits between I Can't Believe It's Teddybears STHLM and Fresh, and it's a gleeful mongrel: punk guitars bolted onto electronica beats and hip-hop swagger, the kind of genre-blender that treats the rock rulebook as scrap paper. "Punkrocker" is the calling card, all strut and swagger in club gear. A few years later they'd drop the STHLM and become simply Teddybears, but the cut-and-paste attitude was already fully formed here.

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