Love Is All has recorded a bunch of their favorite Swedish classics — including a cover of Lykke Li’s mom’s band, Tant Strul’s “Pappas Tant” — and will be giving away the tracks to fans for free at their upcoming shows and online.

According to the band’s MySpace blog, they recorded the covers a while back, when they had some time to kill. “Each member would pick a song with no other member getting a say in the matter,” said Josephine on the band’s blog. “We recorded them all in a hurry at our space just to avoid things getting too complicated.”

Love Is All hand-made 200 CDRs, which include screen-printed covers and a small fanzine. Among the Swedish musicians covered are, Bob Hund, Di Leva and Magnus Uggla. The band will be bringing the covers album along with them to their upcoming shows in Europe, but don’t worry, even if you can’t get one of the 200 albums the band made, you can still go on the band’s MySpace and stream the tracks. 

Apparently the band is also trying to decide if they should do an American classics cover album as well, and if so, we have some suggestions.

It has always felt comfortable to refer to Love Is All in broad and complimentary terms. There is no denying around their bright, spirited indie-punk aesthetic, and their appeal is easily explained by their music’s shout-out-loud simplicity. At the same time, it is their very ease that makes them hard to keep in focus. It’s not hard to perk up an ear at the first guitar rumbles on “New Beginnings”, the first track off A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night. It does, however, get progressively more difficult to stay engaged. These songs are upbeat and melodic in a perfectly noisy way, but there’s also a palpable lack of surprise on instant mix-tape hits like “Movie Romance” and “Give It Back.”

At the same time, that initial appeal is reason enough to keep hoping for more from this record, and there are moments where that hope is rewarded. There’s always been a distinct but not immediate sense of fragility about Love Is All, and it is highlighted in singer Josephine Olausson’s vocals. Where Olausson is eager to yelp out her song-stories in succinct fashion, she also can really sing. The Jesus And Mary Chain-inspired “When Giants Fall” showcases this talent beautifully; here, her singing comes across like a whisper, lending a certain vulnerability to the entire song