Mälmo's Billie the Vision & the Dancers are a seven-member ensemble who play tuneful, chipper, folksy pop music with idiosyncratic, sometimes mawkishly sentimental lyrics. The collective revolves around singer and songwriter Lars Lindquist, who convened the group in 2004 to help record some songs he had initially intended as a solo project. Both of the group's first two albums were nominated for the Swedish indie music Manifest prize and helped the band to secure an impressive national and international following without major-label support or external PR, thanks in part to their savvy Internet marketing strategy. In April 2007, Billie the Vision released their third full-length, Where the Ocean Meets My Hand. ~ K. Ross Hoffman