Sweden can offer melodic treasures sometimes, like - for me - these albums by Sambassadeur or Las Days of April. Days, a band of four musicians from Gothenburg, is another wonderful discovery, offering jangly, sensitive and lightly melancholic pop songs, sounding somewhere between Sarah Records (Brighter and Field Mice are not so far way) and early records by the Go Betweens or even the softest side of The Smiths.
There are 7 songs on this CD ep + 7inch, and each one seems to explore the same nice handkerchief of style and attitude. It's not obvious to pick one song in particular at first or to find big differences between them. At the same time this first collection of songs is almost too perfect for a young band, and like it was the case for Math & Physics Club, I'm afraid of being possibly disappointed by them later in their discography.
The beauty of innocence, the ingenuousness of youth play an important role here, helping a lot to build the compelling charm of Days.
One thing is sure, this ep is brilliant and at least half of these songs, “A Part of the World”, “Downhill” and “Motion” are meant to last. The kind of Proustian madeleine you'll listen to in 2028 with a heavy dose of nostalgia.
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: recommandé par dérives