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- Summary: The sixth full-length release for Emil Svanängen is his first in six years and is the first on the Real World Records label.
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- Record Label: Real World Records
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Sep 27, 2017An elegant, understated pop masterpiece.
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Sep 27, 2017Most impressively of all, the sincerity which pulls Loney dear together in its most moving sections is never lost, even in its pop-leaning moments.
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Sep 27, 2017His mix of wistful tenderness and cerebral darkness plays out in the songs' twists and turns as he pits Bon Iver-ian robo-soul and folk gentleness against sometimes menacing basslines and frigid atmospherics. It's an approach that agrees with him on this strong sixth effort.
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UncutSep 27, 2017Talk of losing his "soul and conscience" and floundering in an ocean with no land in sight suggests deep trauma, hinted at disturbingly in songs such as "Pun" "Dark Lights" Yet there's also evidence of at least a partial re-emergence into the light on "Humbug," which sounds like the Be Gees if produced by Brian Eno. [Nov 2017, p.32]
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Oct 12, 2017His eponymous seventh LP feels like a massive leap forward, as though an epiphany has allowed him to put all the right pieces in all the right places, and suddenly the picture becomes clear.
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MagnetOct 17, 2017He [Emil Svanangen] has a high, expressive tenor that often slips into a keening falsetto that fights to be heard over the sound of the dark, frequently overwhelming synthesizer symphonies that fill the background. [No. 147, p.55]
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