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Cosy006: Elenette - “Autenticitet EP”
01. Att göra en hit Den här veckan - och förra veckan med för den sakens skull - är mitt favoritband Elenette! Jag urgillar dem. /…/ Jag har hittat en ny favoritlåt: Att göra en hit med Elenette. Så himla snygg, så himla bra och så det jag gillar mest - vid sidan av synten och saxofonen - den ankdammsroliga texten. ”Jag önskar att jag kommit på det där med baseballträt”. Så kul popreferens. Marsch pannkaka och lyssna genast. 4/5. Tweepopstar Autenticitet EP may well be the best Swedish language pop I have ever heard. Martijn, Think Small Compared to all those 1980s bands, they are just a bit better. Cause they take the risk to sing in Swedish, have a very nice saxophone, some great melodies and do not sound exactely like The Cure (Shout Out Louds, can you hear me ?). All in all, this is this kind of band which makes me want to speak a better Swedish ! /…/ What is good with this record is that there are no bad songs. If you like Kärlekskomplexet, you will like the others for sure. Those guys deserve to be listened to. The teleportation brings us more than 20 years back in the golden age of Synthpop, between Japan’s arty sophistication and A-ha’s immediate pop (the song Kärlekskomplexet sounds like a superb “Take on me”variation). In addition to this, all-present saxophone backings are conveying a very special emotion (think a happy Tuxedomoon or a light-hearted Theatre of Hate). Elenette, kings of sparkling chansonette! There are echoes of many great bands in Elenette: Pulp, Aha, The Specials. But, like all the best pop groups, they take those influences and twist them, making something unique and peculiarly their own. I love the combination of ’80s reverbiness, ’90s dry drum machines and timeless swinging guitars. They have everything that’s sorely missing from NME haircut indie: grace, humour, MELODIES and, most of all, they’re actually fun to listen to. I’d advise you to grab them now so you can be boastfully smug when the inevitable global chart domination of Elenette ensues… “Att göra en hit” - live clip from Sugar Bar: Kalle singing “When do I get to sing My Way?” by The Sparks, on tour: |
