Swedish vocals
International relevance: *
Few
A-Disc releases are worthwhile, but this has got to be one of the
worst, if not the worst, with the typical to A-Disc political lyrics, presented in a way that
sounds like any Christian group which never got beyond their own local
church fanbase of three. The metronomical backing is so
stiff that no-one could possibly find ”Mot ljuset” stirring in
the slightest bit. The 'sing it everybody' ethos is irritating from
the first track, a cover of Swedish visa singer Thorstein Bergman's
”Alla tillsammans” which, as it happens, means ”everybody
together”, to the last one ”Du stora värld”, a completely passionless take on ”Amazing Grace”. In-between you get an endless
string of equally dead Swedish takes on ”La
Marseillaise”, Malvina Reynold's ”Little Boxes” and a couple of
songs made famous by Joe Hill. And of course, the regular slew of labourers' anthems.
I don't expect any high-grade masterpieces to appear out of nowhere thus late in this blog's history, but a part of me hoped that the worst musical mishaps were out of the way just the same. Not so, as proven by this twelve inch slab of pure Valium.
Comes with a lyric inner sleeve if you want to sing along but I know you don't.
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