MP3: The Bear Quartet - Euthanasia
This week Jonas Appelqvist gets the Bear Quartet post:
"Ny våg" was released in 2002 and it's a dark and introvert album consisting of just nine songs. Only three of them have actual singing lyrics attached (yeah alright, actually it is four songs, but "Trust island" only consists of Matti repeating "Luleå, Kil och Helsingborg", the three cities from where the members of BQ descend) and the rest of the record is more or less instrumental stuff with the kind of twists that are so typical for this band. Ironically enough, I have decided to highlight the opening track, "Euthanasia" that is in no way instrumental and does not have one single trace of Alexandra Dahlström reading a poem over it to destroy it. Fact is, it's just a solid rock song. ´Take two riffs, one for the verses and one for the refrains. Add drums driven almost beyond recognition and haunted lyrics ("Drugs anyone/for the pain for the fun/so I'm a monster really/well guess who spawned me/it was you and you and you and you and you") and there you have it. 1:29. Perfection.
The Bear Quartet - Euthanasia