Suburban Kids With Biblical Names - #4
[Labrador, 2009]

Suburban Kids With Biblical Names have their fourth EP out, with a usual and simple name, #4. What stays? The same off-key sining, the same joyfulness and playful moods. What has changed? Lo-fi sounding is not so lo-fi anymore. Home-made arrangements changed to a more technically sophisticated disco-beats. Don’t get me wrong, it’s still sweet and nice. But the EP does sound very much like another Swede, Jens Lekman. Home pants and slippers are over, now it’s not a Sunday suit, but still something to wear to school. The EP opens with 1999 - synthetic rhythms and dogs barking on the background. Studenter På Flak has a more romantic feel to it, with whistling in-between signing. Europa has soft, mellow guitars, it’s a simple and easy-going song. And the final track is a beautiful World Music song, with african rhythms brought to the general Swedish indie pattern of the EP. All in all, Johan Hedberg and Peter Gunnarson sound very much like themselves, a bit more polished than they used to, but still good old “kids next door” type, playful and happy.

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1999 mp3

Monday, February 16th, 2009 @ %0:%Feb %p music reviews
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