From track one the listener knows that they are in the hands of an experienced artist who knows his way round not only an instrument or a tune but also a sensibility.
‘Willing Night Plants’ opens with a jaunty flourish that is underpinned by the ever present sense of isolation and melancholy that seems to exist as a given in Scandinavian Americana. Yes there are hints of Dunger and The Lancaster Orchestra but Jonsson's voice is indivdual. Is it the phrasing that singing in English produces? Perhaps but lyrically too there is a sense of brooding, dreamlike desperation – ‘struggling and circulating limbs in frost bitten water’ and ‘crying on my closed eyes in the secret garden’ The album continues mining the seam of cold music with a heart of dust . Each track continuing the sense of the whole even ‘Deer Theatre’ which could be AHA with its synths and drums but without the swooning high vocals. Jonsson steers a thoughtful path with his delivery a spoken/whispered tone that swells to a powerful tenor. The template song comes with track 7 ‘Smile with your 1000 teeth’ a slow burn narrative driven by acoustic guitar that builds with an urgency and tension and just as the climax is expected it turns left into an understated Hammond five note solo before returning to the keening narrative which cracks as it concludes. This album delivers on many levels, perhaps the only thing it lacks is a sense of ambition. There are great songs, interesting arrangements, lovely touches of strings and guitar flourishes. Well worth investigating – one for Master Martin indeed.
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