Jonathan Johansson is tagged as: swedish, singer-songwriter, pop, indie, indie pop
Only a few years ago the concept of Swedish pop was more or less synonymous with 1960: chipper hooks throwback arrangement polo shirt and soft-focus cover art, but in a very short time the country's indie production, at least as perceived by these shores, seems to have advanced two decades with acts such as The Legends and the Pacific! find inspiration in the sound in the early 1980s in this respect, Jonathan Jackson is a new romantic but not necessarily a New Romantic, he did not dress outlandishly or portray himself as particularly androgynous, but that the label (these two words, separated from their pop-historical significance) nicely summarize bruised emotion and chilly synth craft of their Swedish language debut, a place in heaven (which translates roughly to"A Hand in Heaven") In these ten songs he sounds resolutely downbeat but with a stubborn optimism, only a true romantic could feel with his heart on his sleeve and his thoughts on his soul into reviving the old sounds Johansson puts an exciting paradox: His music communicates feelings so acute that they can be transferred only with the most coldly mechanistic instruments
Johansson and multi-instrumentalist John talister Eckeborn build a huge wall of electronic sound of a hand in the sky with each tr... Read More About Jonathan Johansson Biography...
