Swedish vocals
International relevance: **
Released on the Slick imprint, home to Elegi and Mögel, this was the final outing from Elvärket following two seven-inches in 1979 and 1980. ”Het vinter” isn't a full-length album either, but a six track 45 rpm mini album. Like many a Slick disc, ”Het vinter” moves somewhere between new wave and late era progg. Had they been a Gothenburg band instead of a Stockholm one, they would certainly have been part of the Nacksving roster alongside Huntington Band and Dom Smutsiga Hundarna.
Nothing here is particularly striking although the title track is rather appealing. Then again, there's nothing here that makes me want to turn it off in frustrated anger either. It is what it is, a rather unpretentious but not unambitious blend of the aforementioned styles. Some talent is certainly involved but not so much to make ”Het vinter” essential.
Several members went on to form soul
band Mr. Soul And His Marshmallows after Elvärket broke up not too
long after the release of ”Het vinter”, by way of long forgotten
band D.O.R. who only had two songs out on cassette-only Slick
compilation ”Mun-mot-mun-metoden” in 1982.
Maskin/Jag vill leva
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