Instrumental, Swedish vocals
International relevance: **
The second album from Filarfolket is an overall better effort than their debut ”Birfilarmusik från Malmö”. The format is largely the same: folk music with an open-eared approach, but they had become a stabilized unit by this time, and as a result, they had earned a greater self confidence which in turn made Filarfolket's vision clearer. It's emotionally more compound, with a few darker accent colours that makes ”Utan tvekan” a fuller experience. The high point is the vocal ”Magdalena” which would have fitted nicely on any Folk & Rackare album of your choice, in an arrangement featuring the deep, scary sound of Dan ”Gisen” Malmquist's contrabass clarinet.
If you choose between this one and the debut, the answer is hands down ”Utan tvekan”.
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