Molly Nilsson
Zenith

I start this review by highlighting that this is my first review on DeBaser... so I'm about to extinguish my first candle. You have surely seen (at least some of you) the craze of recent years: "Game of Thrones". Okay, assuming you've seen it, you surely know the motto of the Starks: "Winter is coming". Are you with me? At this point, I can start talking about this album that is full of winter. Then I have another question: "do you like school"? And yes, because this album was produced by the record label called "Night School Records". Actually, it would be better to say: "do you like night school"? To sum it up: "a winter night school". This is my first introduction, I hope I'm at least hitting the other circles around the center, if not the bullseye. She is Swedish (another night added to everything: Sweden), her name is Molly Nilsson. She has two eyes of aquamarine blue, that is, practically two "ashen white" eyes. Her hair? Light blonde, but so light it approaches white. The album is called "Zenith"... okay, let's avoid explanations related to astronomy and get down to facts. The musical genre? Minimal electronic. But unlike that cold and lifeless minimal, here there's plenty of warmth, enough to heat up winter nights filled with solitude. I prefer not to "sing" the first three tracks. Why? Because they are just nice. Let's start with the fourth: "Mountain Time". We're on the peaks of distant Sweden. The first verse: "I'm always dreaming I could run away"... Who wouldn't want to run away from a just-started or developing sentimental story? Fear grips artists too, and yes. Minimal, there's no escaping it... there's a "beat" (is that how you say it?) that comes from a keyboard, a bit new wave and a bit "no, this isn't new wave, it has something more". Her voice is warm and cold at the same time. The masterpiece follows after the fourth track and it is: "Bunny Game". I don't want to describe anything, just one word; Listen to this song. Yes, the story doesn't change, there's a keyboard loop of such minimalism that you can't explain how it touches the soul so much. Next is "Intermezzo", that's exactly what the sixth track is called... doesn't it give you the idea of an "opera"? For me, it's the first time I notice this intermezzo. I skip "Happyness" and go straight to the gem of the album, the one that consecrates it. And yes, "LOVERS ARE LOSERS": could it be true? Are we lovers losers? A wonderful video and song. I'm sorry I don't have words to use, but here there's really no riff, no chords, no distorted guitars, no solos; There's simply verse and chorus, banality turned into a song (even if Bach and Charles Mingus said that creativity is the spouse of simplicity). Then there's "Titanic", the nursery rhyme... because these songs have a lot of the nursery rhymes from 2016... after all, we're in school, at Night School Records. The last track, the thirteenth is "Tomorrow", another silver statue. How many have I skipped? Oh well... If you're in the mood to become sad, to sink into a bit of winter sadness dictated by things ending, then treat yourself to a listening of "Zenith - Molly Nilsson". Until next time!!!!!