VARIOUS ARTISTS – Så här är det... (Frihets Förlag, 1975)

 
Featured artists: Eld I Berget / De Nya Gesällerna / Trots Allt / Mats Fjanters / Röda Röster / Tabasco
Swedish vocals
International relevance: *

As if it wasn't bad enough with the torturous number of records on the Social Democrat label A Disc, their youth division had their own outlet in Frihets Förlag. Thankfully, their catalogue is slim with only two singles and two albums between 1974 and 1977. (At least that's all I've seen proof of, but I hope it's correct.) ”Så här är det” (=”this is how it is”) was their first full length release and features six acts, three of them coming together on the Victor Jara penned closing track ”Ett enat folk” (=”a united people”). Not that you could tell them apart, because they all sound just like the guitar strumming, bongo beating, slogan shouting typical to albums such as this. Formulaic songs with awkward melodies to lyrics insensitive to details such as singability and syllable amount. The only tracks that remotely recalls some actual musicality is ”Fantasi” by De Nya Gesällerna, an unusually toned-down track with soft guitar picking and flute. 

Eld I Berget - Det var längesen 
De Nya Gesällerna - Deltar oundvikligen
Trots Allt - SKUMLr eller Baude och 
Trots Allt - Rotlös 
Eld I Berget - Än är det inte för sent