LOVART – Stormsvalor (Oktober, 1977)

Swedish vocals

International relevance: * 

 

On and on and on it goes.

And on and on and on.

There's simply no end to albums declaiming the horrors of capitalism and the glory of the betrodden working class of the world. Yes, I agree that capitalism eats the less fortunate on a golden plate with caviar and paté and then finish off the meal with a loud burp, but please – stop whining about it! Please. Just stop. Please.

These albums are so formualic and predictable I no longer need to actually listen to them to know just how they sound. But yeah, I listened to Lovart, with a supernatural patience and a glass of wine to relax my poor tried and tested brain. Apart from the standard political sermons, here's the as-shouty-as-always male and female singer hollering some Asian/Latin American/Russian inspired melody (sometimes interspersed by good-timey pastiches that are even worse). Did those 'passionate', 'politically aware' and 'socially conscious' desktop communists pay any royalties to the betrodden people they nicked their tunes from? Or was it all a rip-off in good spirit?

OK, so the Danish traditional ballad ”Herr Tidman” is pretty okay for a song, and most songs on ”Stormsvalor” are in fact originals (according the sleeve at least) but that is beside the point. The point is that this is just another exercise and selfrighteous and thickheaded political shouting. Then again, what did you expect from a label with both Fria Bloody Proteatern and Bruks-fucking-teatern on their roster...

Note to self: Don't forget to take a double dose of meds before listening to the next album with lyrics utlizing the phrase ”majority of the shares”.

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