Leanids
A Wildly

LA RECENSIONE

It's something I find myself always repeating. A good record is made of imperfections. It's a bit like the difference between a piece of wood and a piece of plastic. If you run your fingers over the wood, you can notice that roughness, those small cracks that offer a unique tactile experience for each piece, unlike plastic, always the same, perfectly reproduced in series.

This metaphor may seem a bit cheesy and perhaps a bit trivial, but it seems to me a direct and effective way to describe my feelings about this album, which presents itself from the first notes as a simple portrait of a band shut in a room playing together. This work is made of dreamy atmospheres, balancing between folk and alternative rock; following in the footsteps of artists such as Ryan Adams, Bright Eyes, or Neil Young.

This group of Swedes is inspired by overseas sounds, but their music has the same flavor as the beautiful forests of their land, among which the musicians isolated themselves to record this album, simply playing the tracks together and with some occasional overdub, as was done in the good old days.

The guitars in "Wanderlust" create very interesting passages by dialoguing with the electric organ and the cello (special guests), while the voice flows freely and dynamically, almost improvising. On the single "Candid & Frank," the acoustic guitars and lap steel take center stage, with a truly exhilarating finale.
"Whatever," just from the title, shows a more carefree side of the band and is a fun nod to rock and roll.

11 songs that manage, without too much pretension, to create an album that is not at all cloying like something pulled out by Mumford and Sons, but enjoyable, "rough," and personal.

Wood is better than plastic!