U.S. version of The Chrysler's second album Cold War Classic.
Galaxy G's U.S. version includes five bonus tracks.
Domestic release for The Chrysler's second album, with 5 bonus
tracks. Cold War Classic is the second full-length
release from mysterious Swedish folk-pop band The Chrysler,
recorded in a little cabin outside Katrineholm, Sweden; an
album filled with hope, agony, and clarinets.
The band’s debut album Failures
And Sparks was well-received by music writers, who
have compared The Chrysler's enigmatic, bonfire folk and baroque,
jangling pop to The Byrds, Neil Young, Simon & Garfunkel,
Nick Drake, The Band, Belle & Sebastian, The Velvet Underground,
Lambchop, and Norway’s Kings Of Convenience. Guest appearances
by Laakso vocalist Martin Krunnegard and Swedish songstress
Britta Person.
As with Failures And Sparks, released in late-2005
by Galaxy Gramophone/PLG, the U.S. edition of Cold War
Classic will be augmented with five bonus tracks, the
songs from their Blue Gold and First Blood EPs, including
their cover of Bob Dylan’s "Changing of the Guards".…
PRESS for Cold War Classic:
MAGNET:
"Steering a path through ‘60s-ish, psychedelic-tinged
folk rock and baroque pop, the Chrysler takes a hint of Byrdsian
jangle, some Velvet Underground strum and gives it all a British
Invasion yank for good measure… Cold War Classic
is suffused with a kind of emotional and musical optimism."
ALL
MUSIC GUIDE:
"Cold War Classic is the kind of record you
can disappear into; it creates a gentle and peacefully sad
mood that's hard to shake for a while afterward, like a well-written
book or well-made movie that creates its own world. The Chrysler
don't get the same praise that some of their poppier and hipper
fellow Swedes get, but they seem like a band that's going
to be making records this classic for a long time to come."
FINGERTIPS:
"I'm getting a feeling of the archetypal American
West in this one, which may seem strange in that the Chrysler
is a folk-pop quintet from smalltown Sweden; on the other
hand, they are considered a "country" act there,
so maybe that accounts for the mysterious, tragedy-prone landscape
their music evokes."
AVERSION:
"Anyone who says the fine
art of subtlety is dead needs to discover The Chrysler...
The
Swedish acoustic-pop outfit returns on its sophomore effort,
Cold War Classic to deliver an understated and quiet effort
that's all about reading between the lines and deciphering
the hints..."
ERASING
CLOUDS:
"With the paper triangle-shaped masks they
sport on the cover, Swedes the Chrysler resemble the Residents
or some such pranksters. Listen to their second album Cold
War Classic (from 2004, but released this year in the
US), and you're likely to think first of another influence
– the Clientele, or moody '60s orchestral pop in that
vein. It's the singers' voices, the languid pace, the trapped-in-fog
prettiness. Keep listening, though, cause that's only part
of the story here..."
POPMATTERS:
"There is an endearing quality to the Chryslers
quiet folk rock..."
INK
19:
"That co-songwriters Pelle Lindroth and Anders
E. Rudstrom have a gift for penning vocal melodies that have
a feeling of untraceable familiarity and soaring distinctness
only adds to the resonance this album holds. If The Chrysler
keep moving in this broken and baroque direction, folk and
lo-fi music fans will continue to have cause to rejoice."
PRESS for Failures And Sparks:
ALL
MUSIC GUIDE Review:
"The Chrysler's debut disc, Failures and Sparks, is a
low-key gem that impresses musically and connects emotionally
with those who love vaguely country-ish songs with lovely
vocals, sparkling instrumentation, and sweetly insinuating
hooks..."
AVERSION
Review:
"The songs on Failures and Sparks are beautiful in their
own quiet simplicity, vocals at points resembling both a more
low-key Tyrannosaurus-era Marc Bolan and the harmonies of
early Simon and Garfunkel, accompanied lightly plucked guitar,
minimal bass, the occasional melodica, and a sporadic appearances
by a revolving cast of intentionally underwhelming instruments..."
IT'S
A TRAP! Review:
"It's winsome melodic pop that's early-spring fresh,
just a bit melancholic and laced with a dash of late '60s
pastoral psychedelia... There is something really beguiling
and relaxed about this band that is indefinably unique. And
the U.S. release has five sweet (mostly acoustic) bonus tracks.
A hearty "thumbs up" for this classic Swedish vehicle
known as The Chrysler."
MAXIMUM
INK - SLIPPED DISC Review:
"The Chrysler evoke[s] a shadowy noir that flits between
faintly melancholic electro-folk and sweetly subtle chamber
pop. A delicate marvel of understated mystery, meandering
melodicas and cryptic acoustics, “Failures,” enchants,
stirring hesitant moods from rootsy, well-mannered troubadours
whose spooky inclinations magically mesmerize."
75
WORD OR LESS Review:
"This Swedish group has created a landscape that is both
fun and introspective, innocent and worldly….the album
feels like Nick Drake meets the Byrds-Sweethearts of the Rodeo.
The songs wind around a whispering ethereal world touching
a hidden spiritual core then move into frolicking folk songs
sung around a crackling dancing campfire. The CD invokes the
feeling that you have stumbled onto a secret gathering from
a forgotten mythic place and that you alone are sharing in
a special memory."
BLOGGER
SWEDESPLEASE:
"With Failure and Sparks, The Chrysler have taken a gigantic
step forward musically. Songs like "This Is Midnight"
pay clear homage to the Velvet Underground and the Doors with
it's chorus of "I'm your man, your little white man,
who thinks he can run faster than Jesus" while "Damn
Staight Evil" features a recorder (?) that's straight
out of the Gorillaz' first record. Influences are all over
the map on this one but taken as a whole the record has an
eerie, spooky life of it's own."
BLOGGER
CAMERON DEYHLE Review:
"The Chrysler is another Swedish Invasion group arriving
fresh on our shores ready to take over our radio frequencies
with their soft touch, lush melodies and sweet sweet harmonies.
At times they remind me of Kings Of Convenience equipped with
a drum set and a leaning towards country. Never going for
shock but instead, killing its listeners with kindness. The
new US release also includes five new bonus tracks."
BLOGGER
JUKEBOX UPCHUCK/THE NOISEBOY Review:
"The group -- considered a country act in their homeland
-- marry whimsical, carefree, Belle & Sebastian-styled
pop with the loose-goosey, drunk-at-the-pulpit, country-folk
of Lambchop. The fuel that drives The Chrysler is hardly high
octane. These Swedes prefer coasting when at all possible,
content to soak up their dour mood in solace..."
YEAH YEAH YEAH mini-review:
"Charming Swedish psychedelic “daybreak pop,”
swirling in a twinkling, slow-motion Simon & Garfunkel
/ Prefab Sprout sunrise."
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