International relevance: *
Claes Nordenskiöld isn't a too familiar name, but Peter Wartin was in semi-hard rockers Baron Bult who released two 45s, and later still in the imperatively ignorable synth poppers Super Tele Group.
This duo album shows only little of what was to come in only a few years. The foundation is vocals and acoustic guitars – no drums – with some electric guitars, piano, soprano sax. One track even have a fusion violin that sounds like a garage take on Jean-Luc Ponty. The few short (semi-)instrumental tracks scattered across the album has a slight relaxation music vibe, but there are in fact a couple of boogie styled numbers that reveal that Wartin had some premature Baron Bult inclinations already at this stage. But apart from those, there's very little resembling actual rock music here.
Being recorded in the internationally renowned Decibel Studios in Stockholm the sound and production is on a high level, but the album nevertheless retains a slight underground feel I can't quite put my finger on (I guess the homemade looking album cover helps). The songwriting is indistinct, some lyrics lightly political, and the album as a whole feels vague and unsharp. And with neither Wartin nor Nordenskiöld being particularly memorable singers, the album just passes more or less unnoticed.
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