Winhill/Losehill

Swedish Indie Folk Band

Swedish music group from Umeå consisting of six members: Jonas Svennem, Henrik Nybom, Petrus Sjövik, Sofia Högstadius, Carl Åkerlund and Kalle Lundin. The band name is taken from two mountains located near the English village of Hope Village, where Jonas Svennem participated in a folk music camp at a young age. The group's debut album Swing of Sorrow was released on February 22, 2012. The record, which is a double disc with 19 songs, is dedicated to Svennem's mother Karin, who died of cancer a few years earlier. The album received generally good reviews, with an average of 5 out of 5 on Kritiker.se, based on nineteen thousand reviews. Dagens Nyheter's reviewer gave the record the highest rating. The singles "Tell Her She's the Light of The World", "The House Is Black" and "The Heart Is a Mussel" were released from the album. Winhill/Losehill was the band for Deportees during Deportees' Swedish tour in 2011. The group's second album, Trouble Will Snowball, was released in February 2015.