Loney Dear

Add Date: January 20

Artist: Loney Dear

Album: Dear, John

Label: Polyvinyl

Genre: Pop, Folk-Pop

Comments: "Loney Dear is the disguise of multi-instumentalist and ex-pro cyclist Emil Svangen... Aged eight, he took up the clarinet and quickly developed an interest in combining synthesizer style music with ornate pop. In his early teens, he focused on troubador-style singing and guitar playing, and fronted a jazz piano trio in his late teans. With the birth of Loney Dear in 2003, Emil's songwriting took an almost manic turn, with an emphasis on experimentation and obsessive perfectionism.

Recorded alone in Emil's tiny Stockholm studio apartment and in the comfort of hin parent's house in Jonkoping, Dear John is an album of contrasts. It will cozy up next to you through the bleakest of winters and be your shade in the blistering summer sun. It's an album that has been on Emil's mind since the inception of Loney Dear, and was crafted lovingly and sometimes frustratingly over the past three years. Emil has always aspired to perfection; he has always promised a masterpiece. He sincerely hopes Dear John is that record"
-Team Clermont

Finely-crafted and masterfully instrumented. Andrew Bird throws in a violin passage on the introspective "I Got Lost." "Under a Silent Sea" has a cool techno influence. RIYL: Caribou, Jens Lekman