The Petter Seander - Til Death Do Us Apart
If you were going to write an album cynically with the intention of having your songs played on BBC Radio 1 16 months ago there would be few better blueprints than The Petter Seander’s “Til Death Do Us Apart”.
Slightly buzzy guitars and straight-up beats pervade throughout. Lyrically uninspiring, but hitting the right buttons to be played during lunch-time on Radio 1.
“If you accuse us we’ll surrender / Lalalala” - you know, that sort of nonsense which make office workers feel a little less like wage-slaves.
It’s Xiu Xiu without the self-hate, Wolf Parade without insanity and Arcade Fire without the everything-all-at-onceness.
The songs gather around central riffs like you expect, the chorus comes and goes and comes back again as you may expect, it’s all rather expected…
…Yet, I don’t know, maybe it’s the Swedish blood, but these are all pop song - real pop songs - at the centre of this. 5 years ago they could have been support Doves; today? I am not sure where they go.
List to Petter Seander’s ”When Something Dies”:
Petter Seander | When Something Dies | 2011 by Petter Seander
