Description
Label Review.
2018 album also available in CD
Our Overview.
Indie rock Swedish band, The Amazing stay just out of focus. Self-produced and recorded in Stockholm, ‘In Transit’ finds the Amazing continuing to cultivate the specific greyscale atmosphere they’ve perfected on recent recordings. Along with the announcement, the group has also shared another new single called “Rewind,” one of the album’s centerpieces. Built on the band’s key characteristics — the shadowy yet propulsive drums, the flickering and intersecting tendrils of guitar, Christoffer Gunrup’s melancholic yet comfortingly cooing vocals — “Rewind” is a welcome return to the hazy, meditative world of the Amazing.
The eleven tracks on this record refine the Swedish five piece’s signature dreamlike soundscape and cement the band’s status as one of the decade’s most consistently compelling acts. ‘In Transit’ picks up right where 2016’s acclaimed ‘Ambulance’ left off. The songs expand on frontman / guitarist Christoffer Gunrup’s gloomy, textured vision - gorgeous tones, fed through layers of distortion in the style of The Cure, My Bloody Valentine, The Flaming Lips.
Gunrup’s fellow band members Reine Fiske (also of Dungen, guitar), Moussa Fadera (drums), Alexis Benson (bass) and Frederik Swahn (keyboards and guitars) follow suit, melding together in a vivid combination of melody and mood.
“This is mood music in the best sense of the term: insular, all enveloping and deeply sensuous” - Pitchfork
“Dreamy” - Stereogum