International relevance: **
A peculiar album lacking both direction and ideas. Those who expect electric folk rock à la Kebnekajse or Håkansson's first solo album ”Springlekar och gånglåtar” will be sorely let down. A couple of tracks sound like a heavier Isildurs Bane, including the best one here, ”Existensproblem”. Another in turn is an approximation of sequencer Tangerine Dream but with guitars instead of electronics. ”Om döden” is better in Dag Vag's live version on ”Almanacka”. The oriental touches in”Egna ben” can't hide it's really just an inferior postpunk song but still better than the pseudo melodic heavy metal of ”Encore”. All sounds like song sketches that should best have been left on hissy 4 track home tapes and not turned into a full, officially released album. I love Kenny Håkansson but this album just isn't any good.
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