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Sweetness resides here, in Iceland. After Sigùr Ros, Mùm, Worm Is Green, here's another one, I said dismissively while reading the good things said about Bang Gang in specialized magazines. The fear was about the journalistic craze of wanting to create a regional trend at all costs, also serving us the works of mediocre artists who happen to be compatriots of so-and-so.
Instead, there is much, much more in Bardi Johansson's album, who meanwhile doesn't set out to emulate anyone, and that's already something. Bardi makes us hear great things when he picks up the acoustic guitar, creating true jewels of songs, including It's Alright which reminds me of the Motorhomes, Find what You Get in the style of Kent, the cover of Stop In The Name Of Love by the Supremes, and the wonderful, incredible Everything's Gone.
In certain songs (those sung by enchanting female voices) the approach certainly refers to the delicacy of Worm Is Green, but the album does not have a prevailing structure. Yet the rest is also refined music, of high level, with glimpses of blues and cinematic backgrounds (There was A Whisper, Contradiction). It impresses the way Bardi manages to convey emotions by dabbling in different genres, and this album is not a mishmash but a collection of twelve great songs.
One thing I wonder: what is it that inspires these guitar sounds, these melodic inventions in Bardi's head... the beautiful valleys of Iceland or that model who seduces him and then abandons him? Condor-recommended.
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