Swedish vocals
International relevance: **
International relevance: **
Not to be confused with GregFitzPatrick's Handgjort offshoot of the same name, this seven-piece
was a Christian outfit that featured Tomas Ernvik on bass and
guitar. Suffering from several wimpy ballads, it still has a fair
share of progressive and not-quite-symphonic folk rock moves. The
playing is consistently good throughout (including some semi-heavy
guitar) and the songwriting is above average, especially if you close your ears during the more overt, sugarcoated "Jesus is a nice bloke" songs.
Oddly enough, I sense a wee bit of Paul McCartney and his mid 70's
Wings here and there.
"Hela mitt liv" opens side B and has a slight renaissance air which nicely compliments the tasteful almost-folk harmonies. Tillsammans retain the faint folkishness on "Undran i vår tid" and on the mournful "Människor", the latter being the best track here. These three tracks help making the second side stronger than side 1.
Despite the reputation Tomas Ernvik
earned through Vatten, the album can still be found fairly cheap.
It's not a masterpiece by any stretch, often too much on the
well-meaning side of things, but some nice guitar passages and a
couple of listenable enough tracks, it's certainly better than the
standard Swedish Xian albums that appeared in droves in the 70's.
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