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It's hardly a secret that there's an endless stream of absolutely terrible albums in the field of progg, and what unites them is often the politics. It's message over music, and if it's music from a theatrical play with an agenda, they're usually so bad they're bound to give you a slight brain damage. I still suffer from having heard Bruksteatern, and I doubt I will ever fully recover from that traumatic experience.
”Fabriksflickorna – Makten och
härligheten” (”the factory girls – the power and the glory”)
falls into that same category, and dealing with the factory
seamstresses situation in Sweden at the same, it comes with the
mandatory feminist angle. The music is written by Gunnar Edander,
best known for ”Jösses flickor”, and performers include feminist
stahlwarts Suzanne Osten (who wrote the actual play) and Lena
Söderblom. That should tell you all exactly what it sounds like: the
one perky tune after the other sung by too many voices at once in the
bloated righteous spirit of collectivity. I don't hear even one
passable track here; if there is one faintly decent song among the
lot, it's immediately ruined by the suffocating atmosphere of pompous
smugness.
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