Club Quattro, Osaka

Mando Diao is an indie-rock five-piece band from Sweden. Making their first public performance in 1999 in Borlange, Sweden, a local writer described them as, “the best unsigned band I have ever seen.” Three years later, they’d signed to a major label and released their debut album, the 2002 release Bring ‘Em In. Being likened in their early days to The Kinks and The Small Faces, the band put out their eighth studio album this year, Good Times, which is more of an electronic indie-pop sound and has been described as “upbeat and pop sounding.” It is said to be an album that is “a good introduction to Mando Diao” as well as being “for the fans who’ve backed them all along.”

Swedish indie-pop-rock band