Blog: L.A. RECORD

It is fitting that Swedish singer-songwriter Emil Svanängen's band Loney, Dear toured with Andrew Bird in January of this year. Both Bird and Svanängen are as much mechanics as musicians—those rare birds that tinker with sounds until they are pulled taught. (One can imagine either of them walking to school as children, whistling and running sticks along fences just to hear the noise.) Watching Loney, Dear perform at Spaceland on Saturday threw this truth into greater light than a simple listen to their latest (wonderful) album, Dear John .