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My first encounter with Swedish psychedelic rock was seeing Träd, Gräs och Stenar at an ATP age 18, when I had no idea who they were. I bought a CD from one of the band at the merch stand; he was friendly and generous with his time, and unperturbed by my total naivety and love of post-rock. He didn’t care that I had no idea who he was and kindly sold me the most post-rocky of their CDs. I had never been to a gig where the band were actually running the merch stand before. It blew my tiny teenage mind.
Träd, Gräs are one in a family of bands that’ll never get old for me. I love their ful…
