Featured here mainly because of the label Grisbäck run by Ulf Bejerstrand, and because it's included in the '100 bands that didn't make the cut' in The Encyclopedia of Swedish Progressive Music. Very little here could possibly be called progg, although there's a couple of references to the Music Movement mentality in one of the lyrics. Mostly "Drömpojkarna" is just straightforward pop, or perhaps 'rural new wave' if such a thing exists. I suspect it was some of the lyrics that appealed the most to Beijerstrand's prepubescent toilet humour.
The album was reputedly recorded in
just 17 hours and it's probably true. If you can ignore the weak vocals and some of the most
embarrassing lyrics (which is hard if you're a Swede), some of the
songs are in fact rather good and wouldn't have been out of place on
some early outing on the seriously amiable Svenska Popfabriken label.
(As a matter of fact, Drömpojkarna went to the village of Klippan in
Skåne after this debut album was released to record their final two
45s in the Svenska Popfabriken's legendary Studio Bombadill.) "Vagabond” is a catchy
enough psuedo-country number, and the band's theme song ”Drömpojkar” is
a nice slow garage rock inspired track, while a basement organ adds an
ethereal, almost psychedelic touch to ”Äppelpaj med vaniljsås”.
But the flat production and the general uniformity of the songs makes the
album too one-dimensional to sit through in a single session. And,
like I said, there's not much here for the progg-head.
After releasing the two aforementioned
singles, Drömpojkarna members went on to join other Svenska
Popfabriken bands (including the obscure Hugh Scott Band) and Aston
Reymers Rivaler.
Full album playlist
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