With I Don't Speak French

Also credited as IDSF

Swedish eclectic alt-rock/pop project (often stylized IDSF), founded and produced by multi-instrumentalist Håkan Persson after university. Rotating collaborators; psychedelic, punk, and indie pop with sync placements (MTV, Samsung). Two Scoobert Doobert joint singles on Indieshake.

I Don't Speak French (IDSF) is a collaborative Swedish project led by Håkan Persson, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and Indieshake label founder. The band formed after music-production studies; the name comes from an early lyric (I don't speak French, or Italian baby). Style shifts deliberately: samba to punk to massive hooks, with The Archives, Pt. 1 and Pt. 2 (2022) and the BOB album track Blow the Speakers Up in the catalog.

Sync and TV are part of the public record: MTV features (e.g. Catfish, Teen Mom), and Samsung campaigns using IDSF tracks internationally. Luke Francis Walton appears on the Scoobert Doobert side of two joint singles as a named collab artist, not as Persson's mixer.

Protoplasmic Prison Cell (Sep 30, 2022, Beformer / Indieshake) and Voulez-Vous (Aug 4, 2023, Indieshake) are the two joint singles. @indieshake × @beformer celebrated Voulez-Vous on Spotify New Music Friday, Indie Covers, and Apple Music New Music Daily (Aug 9, 2023). Persson also discussed DIY, Sweden, and sync on Love Music More.

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