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Just a few years ago, the term Swedish pop was more or less synonymous with the 1960s: chipper hooks, throwback arrangements, turtlenecks, and soft-focus album covers. But in a very short time, the country’s indie output— at least as perceived from these shores— seems to have advanced two decades, with acts like the Legends and Pacific! finding inspiration in the sounds of the early 1980s. In this regard, Jonathan Johansson is a new romantic, but not necessarily a New Romantic. He doesn’t dress outlandishly or portray himself as particularly androgynous, but that label (those two words divorced of their pop-historical meaning) nicely sum up the bruised emotionalism and chilly synthcraft of his Swedish-language debut, En hand i himlen (which translates roughly to “A Hand in the Sky”). On these ten songs, he sounds resolutely downcast, but with a stubborn optimism only a true romantic could feel, with his heart on his sleeve and heavy thoughts on his mind. In reviving these old sounds, Johansson locates a compelling paradox: His music communicates emotions so acute they can be conveyed only with the most coldly mechanistic instruments available.
Johansson and multi-instrumentalist Johan Eckeborn erect an enormous wall of electronic sound on En hand i himlen, with each song demonstrating new tricks. The title track is densely layered around an “and” beat snare pattern, building into soaring choruses and fading away into softer verses.
Johansson and multi-instrumentalist Johan Eckeborn erect an enormous wall of electronic sound on En hand i himlen, with each song demonstrating new tricks. The title track is densely layered around an “and” beat snare pattern, building into soaring choruses and fading away into softer verses.
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Lingonbuske wrote:
Aldrig Ensam <3
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great99 wrote:
Härlig höstmusik, att kura ihop sig i sängen till det här är inte fel någonstans. -Håller med =) Blir ju perfekt sen o se JJ live på P3 Guld i Januari.
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marmaluke wrote:
I love Aldrig ensam, it's beautiful :)
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Shaped wrote:
Härlig höstmusik, att kura ihop sig i sängen till det här är inte fel någonstans.
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bisa wrote:
<3
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usstuss wrote:
jonathan är en fin kille.
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quietchild wrote:
<3
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mvordeme wrote:
What happened? Some moderator cleaned up the gallery and deleted everything. I uploaded the cropped version of the promo shot again. Please vote.
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mvordeme wrote:
I am sorry for that. The old default was so badly cropped that his head would not even show up in your library or in a group's connected artists. The current one has pretty awful JPEG artefacts when scaled. If you would like it better without the artefacts, vote for this one. It is extra high resolution, dug up in the internet especially for you. :-)
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Waldpoesie wrote:
these new live pictures sucks. he against the wall with birds is the best one.
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mok_a wrote:
Great :)
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truculenttyler wrote:
he's awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Zeroc wrote:
aldrig ensam är nog en av få bra låtar
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screenager1 wrote:
Aldrig ensam är en av dom bästa låtarna jag nånsin har hört <3
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shoreIine wrote:
alrdig ensam är underbar
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HystericalMess wrote:
wow
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dstaylor wrote:
this album is fucking great, sweden forever
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fcarlsson84 wrote:
wohoo! min remix ligger på plats 13 och 15! fuckyeah! :D
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Fewmanchu wrote:
Now available in Spotify as well! http://spotinews.wordpress.com/2009/06/21/jonathan-johansson/
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linneaolby wrote:
jag har hört och sett han live när han var förband på mando diaos konsert, som förövrigt var underbar, och det var väldigt synd, för hans röst och text försvann helt bland alla instrument :)
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