Blog: Dots & Dashes

As Leave This Room climbs incandescently to devastating heights, Such Great Heights as The Postal Service once aspired to like chimneysweeps outstretched towards the vertices of pinprick spires, Tobias Fröberg coos for an unobtainable escapism from the fjords of his homelands. Incomprehensibly, Swedish sounds have never translated overseas all that coherently and Fröberg appears to strive against Scandinavian confines, layering vocals over vocals over fragile string sections and endless urgency in a superficially haphazard attempt to crack the shells of those more subdued British and American scenes. Snare drums rattle through the militant gallops of When We Go [...]