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Artist | Astropol
Title | The Spin We're In
Genre | Indie Format | Album
Source | Vinyl Time | 36:04
Label | Ingrid Store | 2015
Catalog | NGRD093 Rip | 2016
Bitrate | 237 kbps Size | 64.59 MB
Freq | 48.0 kHz Encoder | Lame 3.98.4
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A1. Make Love Stay 3:45
A2. Just Before Our Love Got Lost 3:26
A3. Always You And Me 3:33
A4. The Shelter Of My Love 3:20
A5. There Used To Be Birds 2:47
B1. Little Cloud 4:04
B2. In The World 3:57
B3. The Sound Of A Heart That Breaks 3:44
B4. True Love 2:48
B5. Rain Down On You 4:40
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Swedish trio Astropol were made up of two members of that nation's biggest
indie pop musical exports (Bjorn Yttling of Peter Bjorn and John and Shout
Out Louds' Bebban Stenborg) plus an enigmatic figure who goes by the name
Smash. Their paths had crossed over the years - Yttling and Smash were in a
band together, and he had produced Shout Out Louds' 2007 album "Our Ill
Wills" - but sometime in the early 2010s the two men decided to start a new
project and began looking for a singer and got in touch with Stenborg.
Working slowly, as all three had other musical commitments to honor, they
put together an album over four years' time. With each member contributing
to the creation, their sound blended the tight musical focus of Peter Bjorn
and John with the piercing emotion of Shout Out Louds, while forging their
own drama-pop path. The trio's debut album, "The Spin We're In", was
released in late 2015 on the Ingrid label.
Unlike many a bloated effort that emerges when talents this individual get
together, "The Spin We're In" is an understated and direct album that
focuses on love-lost songs, rendered in lower case with tiny tears dotting
the page. Stenborg gracefully wrenches raw emotion out of the words with
minimal effort, sending out icy waves of heartbreak every time she opens
her mouth. The music is mostly sparse, except when it isn't. Yttling being
a master of dynamics and arrangement, the songs' feelings are matched note
for note by the music.
Downbeat ballads like "There Used To Be Birds" are surrounded by subtle
strings and gently strummed guitars, the more insistent tracks like "Make
Love Stay" have rhythm sections that give some muscle to the sadness, and a
song or two even burst out of the melancholy gloom and head toward a
distant dancefloor (the peppy by comparison 'The Sound Of A Heart That
Breaks'). Quite a few of the songs would be positive additions to the
output of their main bands, especially the almost bouncy "True Love" and
the beautifully morose "Just Before Our Love Got Lost".
It's a very well-constructed album with a strong mood that never wavers or
breaks; again not surprising that this crew could make an album this
strong. They probably shouldn't quit their day jobs for Astropol, but if
they need to have something to fall back on, they could have done a lot
worse.
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