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"Songs about loss and love", was
how Sweden's Starlet described their debut album »From the
One You Left Behind«. And here they go again. Still in their
respective twenties, still not married, and still not legally divorced.
But hey, who said those are the necessary criteria for severe heartache
in the blue, cold, post-nighttime hours?
Recognized as part of the ȁhus
Scene« that was designated by the Swedish pop press as "the
Mecca of Swedish wimp pop", Starlet comes from the same region
as Club 8, Acid House Kings, Pop Race, and the Leslies. And, lead
vocalist Jonas Farm's hometown, Malmoe, has been chosen as »the
pop-town of year 2000« by the nation's Swedish Radio.
Jonas Farm describes his contribution to the
album's songwriting this way: "When I learned to play the guitar,
about 1992, I tried really hard to make songs that sounded like
Popsicles' »Laquer«, but it didn't work at all, and
I found out that it was a stupid idea trying to sound like another
band. Then I got every Beatles-album and made the same mistake.
Now I just follow a feeling when I write a song, and subconsciously
fragments of my influences of the time trickles through, mixing
with me and the sound of me.
Most lyricists are unable to express such sentiments
so perfectly. The fact that Starlet does so in a second language
is noteworthy. The songs contain no irony whatsoever, and are suitable
for domestic use, radio use, soirees and car driving, alone or together
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