Compiling and translating the lyrics from Nordpolen’s debut album proved to be a lot harder than when I did the same thing for Avner’s debut album. The dense layered sound and overwhelming production muffles the singing a bit on På Nordpolen and there are some parts that I just can’t hear at all what he’s [...]

I’ve now compiled the lyrics from Avner’s debut album Lyssna and translated them to English. Let me just remind you that some translations are more interpretations rather than translations due to the grammatical differences between the languages. But of course you all already know that when it comes to translations. English translations are in blue [...]

Well the post title pretty much says it all. It’s clear now. The decision has been made. På Nordpolen by Nordpolen was the best album of 2008. Without any doubt. I guess it’s slightly easier for me to relate to Pelle Hellström than the Glasgow-an quartet whose tremendous debut album I initally announced as the [...]

Avner is probably the most interesting artist to sprout in Sweden right now. When his debut single, Bed För Mig, appeared late in April, I was a tad bit hesitant towards the snobbery that he first portrayed in the music and the simplistically luxurious music video. But after all, I knew that Sincerely Yours was [...]

As fuzzy as the picture above… Incredibly elegant and incredibly slanted indie pop at the same time. It could only be a new sprout from Sincerely Yours. Avner’s Bed För Mig is confounding and very short. Speaking of Slanted And Enchanted, he’s yet another who speak-sings the words. Very confusing. The instrumental is like a [...]