Afternoon Showers

Love On Drugs, or Thomas Pontén and band, curiously and passionately blend americana and indie pop, mixing influences from both sides of the pond into a rare and unique cocktail. The brand new single, “Afternoon Showers”, to be released August 30th, 2024, is a rootsy americana rocker featuring Erik Ivarsson on both lap and pedal steel guitar and Jenny Lundin on backing vocals.

His music has been compared to among others Jayhawks and Teenage Fanclub, but also legends like Neil Young, John Lennon and David Bowie. Thomas mainly feels kinship with artists and bands that are a bit all over the place genre wise, namely Bob Dylan, The Band, Joni Mitchell, David Bowie, XTC, Kirsty MacColl and Elvis Costello, to mention just a few.

German FolkWorld describe the music like this, ”This is on the rockier side of folk rock. They definitely establish a nice groove, which gives this the edge over many other bands you hear playing in club land”.

Love On Drugs has performed with among others Ted Russell Kamp (US), The Mommyheads (US), Pi Jacobs (US), Sarah MacDougall (CAN) och Gordie Tentrees (CAN). Through the years he’s played everything from reggae to avant garde in various bands and constellations. With Love On Drugs however, it’s the 1st time in his music career that he fronts a band and sings lead vocals.

In the spring of 2016 he released his debut album, ”I Think I’m Alone Now”, and in April 2018 his sophomore record, ”Solder”. On March 21st, 2021, Love On Drugs released the 3rd album, “meLODies”, and the latest album, “Fluke”, was released June 2nd, 2023. All 4 records received great reviews and lots of airplay throughout Europe. In between albums he's also released a number of digital singles of which “Overdrive” is the latest, released June 2nd, 2024.