Familjen - s/t
(Adrian Recordings)

Mmmm. Pretty, accessible atmospheric Swedish sounds, the type of music you would enjoy if pumped into your favourite licensed hideaway while lingering over a latte or White Russian. Opening track "Ivanhoe O Rebecka" is particularly well-suited to this. By track two, however, you feel you've been dragged up the street to the trendy, chi-chi venue where cocktails and fancy footwear are required. Track three, "Hon är fin", is a welcome return to relaxation, only to be followed by a space-age exercise in keyboard and drum machine tweakings that will have you staring into your hot cocoa in a trance, looking to the melting marshmallows for the meaning of life. A mixed bag, really, but worth rifling through if you're looking for some novel new electropop.
- Stacey Shackford