Stars In Coma
You're Still Frozen In Time

From Sweden with fury...

Here, after much experience, numerous self-recorded tracks and circulating them online, the Swede André Brorsson (Stars In Coma) returns to the fray with "You're Still Frozen In Time," an album also composed of old tracks re-recorded and newly laid down, colorful songs that nod to various influences. Everything goes smoothly, the mournful, shy, and trembling voice of André blends with light yet powerful melodies at the same time. At times some electronic passages can surprise us, but then everything returns to normal, the strings make themselves heard, the sweetness to which Swedish pop and tweepop had accustomed us almost vanishes and the album in question fills its lungs with new oxygen.

"You're Still Frozen In Time" is a record that does not risk anesthetizing ears but, on the contrary, invites prolonged listening precisely because it is capable of bringing new sounds to music that is difficult to love and sometimes considered too "saccharine" or "not rock enough"... but pop, the kind with a capital P, the kind artists of the caliber of The Housemartins, The Wedding Present, and The Field Mice have accustomed us to, is either loved or hated, difficult to appreciate partially, and maybe you'll find a nice sound project like Stars In Coma capable of making you know it in a sincere way. Tracks like "Give Up" stand out, one of the pieces closest to the sounds of the '80s from a structural point of view, with driving guitar and drums, a nearly suffocated voice, some incursions of surely more modern synths, and the simple yet challenging pop game is quickly done; beware... it's easy to appear banal compared to other types of music. "Life Without The Community" strikes already from the title, the music is there but does not cover the words of the text, a small piano drags the heart and the bittersweet melancholy that everything releases, baffles the mind. It makes you move, passes quickly, and you already want to put it on again, "Invisibility Trick" stands out as a somewhat more animated track, a bit more of a child of that fast and playful Swedish tweepop, and I wonder how one can remain indifferent in front of a track like "I Saw My Heart Passing By", so old yet so new. To beautifully close, the dreamy "My Sunshine Years" brings to mind, but not too much, the dear and always welcome Belle And Sebastian, a piece full of emotion and capable of giving beautiful moments.

In conclusion, "You're Still In Time" is a very good product, sincere and certainly lovable even by the most skeptical listener. All tracks were written, arranged, recorded, and produced by André Brorsson himself for the increasingly promising Music Is My Girlfriend.

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