Edit: WTF kleinbl00 I just saw your response from last week after I posted this, very serendipitous in my opinion! Diving deeper into the 90s once again, this time with WARP records et al. Discovered SeeFeel in a big way with
I’ve had a Kjell Höglund relapse lately. It usually happens about once a year for a week or so, but this time around he’s been in rotation since november. ”Genesarets sjö” is probably his most well known song. Lyrically it doesn’t really tell a story, something about the Sea of Galilee and a gallery opening. Mostly it’s just beautiful poignant sentences strung together. And it flows like a river in my inner world Let me cry let me be alone And burn my books like firewood ”You get used to it” is so dark and depressing that it somehow ends up cheering me up. and the hours of the night like rubberbands Waiting for the sleep of oblivion And the alarm goes off Holy hell, the pain, you can’t be bothered to wash yourself Drinking cold coffee from the day before And outside it’s cold and dark and rough and foggy But you get used to it You get used to it Kjell never really cared much about having a ”sound”. He was happy to experiment and make albums with whoever, so his discography can get a bit... eclectic. This song is probably the answer to what it would be like to meet Socrates on the dancefloor in a small town in northern Sweden. Last one, and then I promise our Swedish cultural exchange program is finished for now! Just some happy social realism to round this off. She sounds so happy, she sounds so beautiful She tells me how it feels so nice how she feels so good I don’t hear him, but she sounds goodMy memories are like cherries in punsch
The sheets get tangled up and damp of sweat
I hear them sleeping with each other on the floor above