subject: Loney, Dear: The Soothing Swedish Indie Music Artist [print this page] Sweden is a place where more indie music artists could be found per square mile than any other place in the world. The Swedish music scene has gradually and steadily infiltrated the music world through performers like Jens Lekman, The Cardigans, The Hives, and Peter Bjorn and John.
In addition, there is also Emil Svanngen, one-man home-recording wonder and a known multi-instrumentalist. In his tiny Stockholm apartment, he works and records his pieces just like cooking precious pop gems. With that, he has sold numerous copies of his first three albums on his website, on CD-R and other mp3 blogs. The artist shows business using the enigmatic nom de plume which is Loney, Dear. He is an adorable geek whose folk jazz sound is difficult to get enough of.
The American indie tag Sub-Pop Records in 2007 released Svanngens first studio album entitled Loney, Noir. His cracked, captivatingly longing, and almost squirmy high-pitched voice is infatuating. He sings whole heartedly covering about relationships, love found, and love lost with intense tenderness.
The disc opens with the delicate and fragile, Sinister in the State of Hope. The song is followed by a more cheerful, the catchier I am John, which is perhaps the best song for Svanngen starters. It is considered a beautiful piece that starts sincerely and builds up only in the third part where all the thrilling happens. The speed quickens with the reverb of the clarinet and drums coupled with inspiring fantastic tenor vocals. Before it fades with the soft clacking of the drumsticks, it swirls for a good bit.
The song, Carrying a Stone, is considered as a hidden masterwork. Solemn yet promising, the song seems like the sound of daylight breaking. Just like the light that slowly streaks the sky, the sound starts on a stable yet brisk note that gains musical drive as Svanngen hums to a crescendo in the backdrop until it explodes and fades with the reverberation of drums, organs, horns, and lively woodwinds. Other songs that are captivating are Im the Odd One and Saturday Waits, which is accepted as wide-eyed and innocent in style of presentation.
Loney, Noir is a lifting and exhilarating album to listen to. Consider it as it tugs at your heartstrings. Loney, Dear shares with you all the kindness of love, joy , and even heartache with a track album that starts calmly using just the guitar and voice until it swells pleasantly with the synchronization of hand claps, pump organs , and melodies that are at once sparkling and melancholy. Loney, Dear as well known is an indie music artist that breath fresh air and his album is as stylish and appealing as a wonderful summer day blast with Lomo.
