Video: The Electric Pop Group - Not By Another.MPG

Erik Aamot doesn't mumble, but the wall of noise that he has to get through does the job of mumbling for him. The tambourine is ideal here: it throws up a fog around the other instruments, and this Swedish band likes to play through fog, a shoegaze moan of guitar. The substance of the noise -- all those tiny shakes and jingles -- gives it the appearance of being insubstantial, but the noise is ongoing, and heavy, a wall that bears forward against the listener. Erik Aamot's voice comes through this wall singing about love in words...