Acid
House
Kings - Mondays
Are Like Tuesdays and Tuesdays Are Like
Wednesdays
 Artist:
Acid House Kings
Title: Mondays Are Like Tuesdays
and Tuesdays Are Like Wednesdays
Catalog#: AHA!038
No longer available. |
Tracks
on this CD: |
| Sunday Morning
(Windows Media) |
| Start
Anew |
| She
Keeps Hoping |
| Brown
and Beige Are My Favourite Colours |
| This
Love Is All We Need |
| Summer's
On Its Way |
| Swedish
Hearts |
| You're
A Beautiful Loser |
| A
New Day, A New Career |
| Say
Yes If You Love Me |
| Mondays
Are Like Tuesdays |
| One
Two Three Four |
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While bands like The Hives and The Soundtrack of Our Lives are ushering in a
new age of Swedish rawk, there remains an underground movement of subtler sounds
emanating from Scandinavia's shores. A movement begun ten years ago, and nurtured
since, by Acid House Kings. Mondays are like Tuesdays and Tuesdays are like
Wednesdays is the easy, breezy, beautiful third album by this Swedish pop
combo, and it includes references to Stockholm inner city life, the sound of
the Velvet Underground, and a depressing TV series on Sweden's suburbs titled
Svenska Hjärtan.
The forerunners to the fertile and incestuous Åhus scene, Acid House Kings
have spawned a series of great bands including Red Sleeping Beauty, Poprace,
Starlet, and Club 8. Julia (Lasse Lindh contributor) Lannerheim sings, Johan
(Club 8/Poprace) Angergård plays guitars, bass and keyboards, and his brother
Niklas (Red Sleeping Beauty) Angergård sings and plays guitars and keyboards.
Joakim (Starlet) Ödlund is paid tribute in the title track but didn't participate
in the recording of the new album. The trio promises Joakim will be back for
the prospective album number-four.
On "Say Yes If You Love Me" Julia sings 'There's a certain kind of
sadness/There's a certain kind of joy/In everything you're doing,' and the same
is true throughout Mondays are like Tuesdays and Tuesdays are like
Wednesdays. And, though the band claims that "Say Yes…" is "the
only old-school classic AHK sound on the new record," fans will recognize
familiar elements. Alternately melancholy and sprightly, Acid House Kings play
airy pop full of sweetness and light. Strummy, jangling guitars set the tone
that is accented by stylish keyboards and subtle bass playing. The foil between
the Niklas and Julia's singing provides the album's focal point with simple melodies
in perfect harmony and sensitive, contemplative lyrics of love. Perhaps the cruel,
dark winters account for the band's seasonal fixation as summer also becomes
a recurring theme throughout the album, serving as an
allegory for love.
This is gentle, soft pop that will appeal to a broad range of admirers of vintage
'60s pop, classic '80s indie-pop from record labels like Creation and Sarah Records,
and current acts like (of course) Club 8.
The
Swedish trio dishes lighter-than-air cocktail pop that's commonplace
nowadays, but the standard of performance --in the trilling boy-girl
vocals, quietly busy arrangements, and McCartneyish bass lines
- makes this collection a more pleasurable listen that it would've
been in less-skilled hands. Julia Lannerheim steals the show
on the smoky "Love Is All We Need," and "Summer's
On Its Way" is The Style Council single that got away. - The
Big Takeover
Like their international brethren -- Club 8, the Field Mice and
Sundays -- the Swedish trio the Acid House Kings record lightly
orchestrated pop with jangly
strum. Unlike their brethren, AHK forgo the synth drone and drum machines of
many post-Stereolab groups. Instead, they follow a tradition through Donovan,
Nick Drake and Bacharach, creating songs full of sugary yet bittersweet, melodic
hooks. Muted horns, strings and chiming guitars are cradled in gently skipping
bass through album highlights such as "She Keeps Hoping," "You're
a Beautiful Loser" and the title track, while lyrics such as "Summer's
on its way/It changes everything then turns in to fall/The summer gets to us
all," on "Summer's On Its Way," waft with the slightly melancholy
air of a vacation's end. Through it all, Julia Lannerheim and Niklas Angergard
trade breezy vocal harmonies warm and welcome as soft light on a lazy breakfast-in-bed
weekend. It's regal, perhaps, but nothing
acidic about it. -Rollingstone.com
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