Despite the boyish profile, Elowsson demonstrates a seasoned mastery of the studio environment on his debut, It Used To Feel So Good. These are some sunny, chiming folk-rock jams that, not unlike some of the latter-dayJayhawks material, have a professional polish brightening the melodies without dimming the passion.
”It used to feel so good” kommer knappast göra någon besviken med sina 60-talsdoftande treminutare och inledande ”Main Street” kommer vevas på P3 hela sommaren. Anders bevisar skivan igenom att han är en av landets mest spännande unga låtskrivare och det ska bli väldigt intressant att se vart det här slutar. Och så var det det där med rösten. Den har redan utsetts till landets sexigaste i svensk musikpress och när han väser ”I’ve got you, you, you, you” i ”Get it on” är jag nästan beredd att skriva under på det.
Anders Elowsson är beviset på att det fortfarande produceras fräsch popmusik i Sverige
Jag har ingen aning om Anders ålder, men han ser inte ut att vara särskilt gammal. Definitivt inte gammal nog att ha upplevt den 60-talspop som hans musik hela tiden andas. Det är ingen unken utandningsluft utan också den, precis hans särpräglade röst, andas en skön och solig sommardag i en doftande sommarhage med all slags blommor och fan vet om inte ett svagt insektssurr infinner sig någonstans inne i skallen på mig när jag låter ”It Used o Feel So Good” snurra på repeat.
Den utbildade ljudteknikern Anders Elowsson är oerhört musikaliskt begåvad. Inte nog med att han naturligtvis har skrivit materialet själv, han spelar mer eller mindre samtliga instrument själv på sin debutskiva. Dessutom har han producerat och spelat in alla låtar på egen hand. Han har bara haft hjälp av Johan Eckman på trummor och gitarristen Martin Nobel på fyra spår.
Musiken doftar nostalgisk 60-talspop med hammondorgel, körsång och handklapp. Det märks att han har låtit sig influeras av idoler som The Mamas and the Papas och The Monkees med smak av Bob Dylan.
Anders Elowsson som föddes i Falun och numer bor i Göteborg är beviset på att det fortfarande produceras fräsch popmusik i Sverige. Själv säger han att hans musik låter som en transistorradio från 1965 och jag håller med.
Musikaliskt handlar det här om pop/rock som hämtar sin näring från en ung Bob Dylan. Lyssna bara på "Main street" med en refräng som blinkar singelhit lång väg. Eller varför inte ösiga "I ain?t gonna fail you" med bästa Atomic Swing-driv. Mellan de självklara popmiraklen hinner Anders Elowsson ösa ur sig vemod i ett par snyggt utmejslade ballader. Tio bra spår omsorgsfullt draperade med gitarrer, munspel och inte minst orgel. Bättre än det mesta just nu.
I've made an album of songs I wrote last winter. Some are happy, some are sad. Some are neither, some both. It'll be released April 11th, 2008 on Marilyn Records. Hope you'll enjoy it.
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1. Main street
3.23
2. I Aint Gonna Fail You
3.35
3. Defined by Amelie & Refined by You and Me
2.41
4. It Used To Feel So Good
4.47
5. Get It On
3.41
6. Sail Away
3.43
7. The Scold
3.57
8. It Aint Love
3.40
9. Does She Need It?
3.14
10. Baby Stay
5.31
Lyrics
Main Street
When we were getting there
When all was yet to come
We'd walk around the square
And down the slums, down the slums
And leaves would fall on Old Street
As the suits were heading home
And we'd struggle through the cold winds
As we slowly made our way into the night
And we would swing it down on Main Street
The night was done
Ohoh on Main Street
We danced around
Oh I tell you
The night was when we'd rise
The night was in you eyes
Oh I can never rest
The rally always moves too fast, it moves too fast
When I was growing up
The town was mine, the town was mine
And the songs were always burning
And your hand was mine to waste
And I know it aint returning
But once I'd challenge anyone who'd fight
And we would swing it down on Main Street
The night was done
Ohoh on Main Street
We danced around
Oh I tell you
The night was when we'd rise
The night was in you eyes
....The night was when we'd rise
The night could make us fly
The night was in you eyes
I Aint Gonna Fail You
I've got a fever for you
You know that I've got
Don't tell med I'm bad
You know that I'm not
But there's not any chance
That I'll ever dance
Away in the night
Indiepop style
So I'll see you when you're through
I'll see you when you're through
I'll see you when you've settled down your shoes
And I'll see you when the night is falling down
And everybody's heading home from town
'Cause I aint gonna fail you
I aint gonna fail you
I aint gonna fail you
You're turning my eyes
Making me blind
I'm yearning alright
It's burning inside
I need you to get home
Want you to come home
Home when you're done
'Cause soon I'll be done
So I'll see you when you're through
I'll see you when you're through
I'll see you when you've settled down your shoes
And I'll see you when the night is falling down
And everybody's heading home from town
'Cause I aint gonna fail you
I aint gonna fail you
I aint gonna fail you
I’ve got all that you want
All that you need
When there’s nobody else
Who’ll treat you like a belle
But oh I wouldn't flaunt it
Or make it obscene
Nor silently want
You to get free
I'm just stealing time
Making you blind
It's a feeling you'll fight until you drown
So I'll see you when the night is falling down
And everybody's heading home from town
'Cause I aint gonna fail you
I aint gonna fail you
I aint gonna fail you
Defined by Amelie & Refined by You and Me
Way above the streets
On your side of the moon
They're taking on the sea
And the siren’s coming through
So will you pass the gin
When the painter gets drunk
And I'm giving in
To the prescense that I feel when you're around
Oh you're stealing my mind
it's like a fever
I wanna fight what you fight
I wanna swing you every night
And when you're twisting around
You know I'll be there
And when the evening gets late
I'm gonna shake you like they did back '68
Oh I'll play along
On that side of the moon
To the brake of down
Or till the silence of the booze
But where're you gonna hide
Where're you gonna hide
Where're you gonna hide
When they’re turning of the diamonds in the sky
Oh you're stealing my mind
it's like a fever
I wanna fight what you fight,
I wanna swing you every night
And when you twisting around
You know I'll be there
And when the evening gets late
I'm gonna shake you like they did back '68
It Used to Feel so Good
It burns in your eyes
The passing of time
You didn't know why
She sat on your side
You fake, your fortress' built in wood
You never got out while you could
'cause it used to feels so good
yeah it used to feel so good
You fade in the groove
You fade in the flow
It's easy to move
When nobody knows
The room is fixed on where she stood
You'd never stay here but she would
Where it used to feel so good
Back where it used to feel so good
You stay in your bed
And fight what you've done
The feeling is dead
And soon you'll be gone
Soon you've released the ones you should
Soon you are nothing in this hood
But it used to feel so good
Yeah it used to feel so good
You ran neath the stars
That lightened the night
And kissed in the park
She tasted like wine
You faded home to get some food
Just like in a scene from Hollywood
And it used to feel so good
Yeah it used to feel so good
Oh it used to feel so good
Yeah it once used to feel so good
Get It On
I've got you
You you you
It's gonna last
Last last last
I've got it made
Made from the best of the best
And I'm on my way
To get it straight
I've got you
You you you
It's gonna last
Last last last
Oh aint it mad
Your heart beats as if you’ve been shot
It's keeping you hot
So wont you
Get it on!
Just get it on
Get it on!
Just bring it on
Get it on!
'Cause soon your days will be gone
So wont you get it on!
I've got you
You you you
It's gonna last
Last last last
I've got to take the lead
I'm telling you wait and see
Until I show this song, that makes us
Get it on!
Just get it on
Get it on!
Just bring it on
Get it on!
'Cause soon your days will be gone
So wont you get it on!
Sail Away
I would love to walk alone
Like a fool who’s tired and stoned
'n when all’s seen
Through the mirror glass
I have been such a fool in the past
If she scares me
If she scare me off
I would stay cold
Cold as rock
Yeah oh I would try not to tell
That she scares me she scares me as hell
And I would sail away
Sail away, sail away
Just for her
Sail away, sail away
Sail away just for her
When I met you
I was hard
It’s a fake now
I use standard charm
'n when all’s seen
though the mirror glass
I have been such a fool in the past
Sail away, sail away,
Sail away just for her
Sail away, sail away
I'd sail away just for her
The Scold
Oh I wanna do
All that is done
By the traitors in the sun
It's gonna feel
Just like how it felt
When you got away
Oh I'll feel it in haze
Of sparkling seas and broken dreams
Oh I'm gonna fight
All that aint right
In the things you said to me
'Cause you’re just a fake
With nothing at stake
But your prophecies
And when I do it in the haze
Of sparkling seas and broken dreams
I'm gonna make somebody else
Head of all the fog I breath.
'Cause I love your face
When it stays away
Yeah I love your role
But it makes me old
It leads me to the floor
And drowns me when I'm cold
They lead you to the floor
And kindly ask for more
You wanna read
All you can read
Though you don't know what it means
And you're getting by
Though you may cry
Over movie scenes
So I'll make somebody else
Head of doubts and head of salt
I'm gonna make somebody else
Head of all the times I fall
'Cause I love your face
When it stays away
Yeah I love your role
But it makes me old
It leads me to the floor
And drowns me when I'm cold
They lead you to the floor
Or sends you out the door
I just need you when it seems to end
I just need you when it seems to end
And I aint never sailing back again
I aint never sailing back again
And if you fall, we'll say we're friends
If you fall, we'll say we're friends
But I aint never turning back again
I am never turning back again
Oh oh oh oh oh
I aint never turning back again
Oh oh oh oh oh
I aint never turning back again
Oh oh oh oh oh
I aint never turning back again
It Aint Love
I wanna leave today
Just to fade away
Cold nights hides behind the door
They make me call
To ask for more
And she can do that to
Yeah she fakes for you
Her bright eyes keeps the truth concealed
They break your shield
Until you kneel
But no it Aint love..
Oh they will steal your heart
They will steal it right from the start
By time the crowd will sway their gloves
And when you fall you’ll soon get mauled
Until you bleed to death
Or till you hide the love, you've still got left
Inside, your clouded lonely chest
Yeah the things you pet are tough to get
But no it Aint love..
She puts her neckless on
And walks out the door
I'll stay the bed is nice and warm
But she is torn
She flits above
Just like a dove
But that aint love
Does She Need It?
It couldn't do no good
It couldn't do her no good
I couldn't state what I should
I couldn't state it like she would
And by noon, her eyes, will turn to shadows
Oh and time, would pass, outside the door
But does she need it to be sure?
Oh sure
Can't she see it in my face?
Silent face
Can't she feel it when we move?
Slowly moves
That my heart will stays
Your heart will stay
I wouldn't walk without mine
I wouldn't feel the moonlight
But she can steal the same time
In the fog of smoking lines
And by night her eyes will break the silence
And time, would pass, outside the door
But does she need it to be sure?
Oh sure
Can't she see it in my face?
Silent face
Can't she feel it when we move?
Slowly moves
That my heart will stays
Your heart will stay
Baby Stay
They tell you it's okay
But no one beats the system
You wanna get away
You wanna get away
I left you in the cold
I felt it like my prison
And I leaned against the walls
Like a child against the old, he-he-hey
But ohoh I was blind
Oh I was blind
With sand in my eyes
The band by my side
All I would do
All I would say
You’re fading away
Fading away
But baby wont you stay
I gambled with your heart
You stayed by the side of my shadow
And I gambled with your heart
Yeah I gambled with your heart
Now I see you in the sun
You're sleeping around with some Mr
I can’t gamble with your heart
Can't gamble with your heart, he-he-hey
But ohoh I was blind
Oh I was blind
With sand in my eyes
The band by my side
All I would do
All I would say
You’re fading away
Fading away
But baby wont you stay..
This month we mostly have Catie Curtis (with a Richard Thompson cover), Lindsay Fuller and The Cheap Dates (and who amongst us isn't?), Josh Fix with a track from the well-titled album This Town Is Starting To Make Me Angry and the rather lovely Red Rooster.
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Det blev en hektisk festivalsommar i år igen. Joyzines redaktion besökte sammanlagt 11 svenska festivaler, recenserade 148 konserter och gjorde en mängd intervjuer. Nu är det dags att samla allt det goda på ett och samma ställe:
HEAVEN AND HELL Göteborg - 2nd and 3rd October, 2009. 8 fantastic live bands and 10 top deejays at a venue with two floors in the middle of Gothenburg, Sweden.
BAND LINE-UP: THE INCREDIBLE STAGGERS - Austria CIRCULUS - England FOX MACHINE - Gothenburg HORISONT - Gothenburg THE MOBSMEN - Norway TEASPOON - Gothenburg DAVID PETER AND THE WILD SECT - Denmark THE DON DARLINGS - Gothenburg
DEEJAY LINE-UP: KIM - WOODY WEST GBG EMMA RAND - GBG HOLLY - SCOTLAND SARAH - SCOTLAND ERIK - FRICTION GBG THOMAS - NORWAY SIMEN - NORWAY GAZZA - ITALY BIG T - GBG ALE - CLUB RADIO LONDON PETER - CLUB RADIO LONDON
VENUE: STARS N BARS, GÖTEBORG DATES: 2 OCT - 3 OCT, 2009. HOURS: 20-03 AGE: 18+
Hej dig, hoppas allt är bra! Nu ligger en ny låt av The Revival of Love and Music uppe på vår myspace. Det är en nyinspelning av "Souls of Love and Music" och den är laddad med en massa kärlek och energi. Så kom gärna in en stund och lyssna så blir vi glada.
Four more little sonic gems for your August pleasure are now available on the site. Blitzen Trapper, Boulder Acoustic Society, Jay Brannan and The Wiyos. Yet another fine quartet even though we say so ourselves as picked them out.
Hello, after an unfortunate hiatus, the reasons for which are probably best not gone into here, we finally have some new music on the AUK MySpace site. For your listening pleasure this month we offer Nathan Oliver, Conrad Ford, the irrepressible Todd Snider and the delightful Beccy Owen. Don't forget too, for those of you within striking distance of Leicester, Electric Dustbowl 2 on 19 September.