little stream

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Little Stream band photo

"There's a stillness running through Little Stream's music, the kind of calm that asks you to lean in and listen harder."

The guitars are sparse, each note hanging in the air like a small decision. Anna Svensson Rova's voice carries the quiet ache of someone thinking out loud, while the rhythm section moves the song forward with the muted certainty of time itself.

The band's sound leans toward the understated — part Americana and part dream-worn indie rock. It's music that doesn't rush to arrive anywhere, that finds beauty in the fragile and the almost-forgotten.

Little Stream began during the long quiet months of the pandemic, when Anna, Elin Tannerdal, and Jussi Kalla started recording together at night, building songs from fragments and accidents. Johan Johansson joined on guitar, and together they built Studio Lur, where their debut album took shape in 2023, borrowing their name from the brooks and creeks that thread through their childhood landscapes.

In the spring of 2025 they revisited their hometown of Kiruna to record their second album with producer Björn Pettersson Thuuri — digging deeper into the same quiet tension established on their debut, exploring the stories they grew up with, memories true and imagined, the things that could and should have been, and the lies we're told and tell ourselves to live.

  • Anna Svensson Rova – vocals, guitar
  • Elin Tannerdal – bass
  • Johan Johansson – guitar
  • Jussi Kalla – drums

music

Wayne Gretzky — single cover

Latest single

Wayne Gretzky

2026 · Single

Hurt Like Us — single cover

Single

Hurt Like Us

2026 · Single

Crime Scene — single cover

Single

Crime Scene

2025 · Single

For You Anyway — album cover For You Anyway

2024 · 7 tracks · 21 min

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