First Floor Power is an indie rock

Indie rock

Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...

 band from Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

.FFP recorded and released their debut EP "We Are the People" in 2000 on the Swedish label Silence Records

Silence Records

Silence , is a Swedish record company located outside Koppom, Värmland in Sweden.Silence was started in 1970 in Stockholm and released records by, amongst others: Bo Hansson, Philemon Arthur and the Dung, Samla Mammas Manna, and other progressive rock acts...

. In 2001 their debut album "There is Hope" was released. The Swedish National TV produced a one hour documentary about the band which focused on the struggle and attempts of the band in its early career. Their sound has been described as a combination of afrobeat

Afrobeat

Afrobeat is a combination of traditional Yoruba music, jazz, highlife, funk and chanted vocals, fused with percussion and vocal styles, popularised in Africa in the 1970s. Its main creator was the Nigerian multi-instrumentalist and bandleader Fela Kuti, who gave it its name, who used it to...

 and 70s pop music. The band was listed in the "ten albums of the year" in the Time Out Magazine.

Discography

• We Are the People CDM (2000)
• Time Time CDM (2000)
• There Is Hope CD (2001)
• Love Will Come Knocking CDS (2001)
• The Covers 7" (2002)
• Happy Endings CDM (2003)
• Nerves CD (2003)
• The Jacket 12" (2008)
• Don't Back Down (album) CD (2008)

Members

Current

• Karl-Jonas Winqvist
• Sara Wilson
• Per Lager:

Past

• Jenny Wilson
  Jenny Wilson (singer/songwriter)
  Jenny Wilson is a Swedish singer-songwriter, born on October 20, 1975 in Blekinge, Sweden. She founded the band First Floor Power in 1997 and released two albums, There Is Hope and Nerves, before leaving the band to go solo around 2004. She studied graphic design at Konstfack for one year...