Sinister/State Of Hope-Loney, Dear
Like most music fanatics, i am always searching for new sounds and bands. When i talk music with other people, though, i am often never surprised by the artist they believe they are introducing. As in the statement "have you heard of..." i often have. About 90% of the time, i've at least heard of the band or artists...through word-of-mouth or blogs or magazines. In any event, Loney, Dear was somebody i'd never heard or read about. Even more surprisingly, since i am such a Scandinavianophile; Loney, Dear (actually one man named Emil Svanängen) is from Sweden. So i asked my friend Liz to send me a copy of the CD.
Ever been in a really bad dour mood and then just hear a song which is so transcendent that it lifts your spirits? It can be a song you know really well or one you've never heard before. From the opening moments of "Sinister/State of Hope" my previously dark mood was lifted. Svanangen has an astonishingly beautiful voice--definitely a Scandinavian sound to it. As soon as he started singing on this track, i thought "sigur ros". That is only a good thing. His voice actually is somewhere between sigur ros and the Norwegian singer Evan Johanesen (Magnet). The lyrics are very simple and made me think of some existential late night crisis...a period of swinging between incredible doubt and great hope. And when he sings "when all i want, all i want, is a state of hope, with all i want summer night, and i didn't hope, for something i couldn't have. you turn me down" is heartwrenching. So gorgeous.
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