Today I’m starting this new year, 2012, here on the blog. I’m receiving more music than ever and I could only wish for more time to show it all to you here on Meadowmusic. Well, I’ll do my best, and we’ll see where we land.

I still have artists to write about from the Autumn, so I’ll start with one of these. First up is Kristoffer Hedberg, who released his third album, “Mina jag och du”, in the beginning of December. Lasse Lindh is the producer and together they have created an enjoyable album, with first of all a refreshed sound if I’m comparing with the earlier songs.

Yes, I write refreshed, because that’s how it feels. Before it was about singer/songwriter-pop with the usual set of instruments: guitars, drums, piano, harmonica etc. But here I meet arrangements and a production that look for new ways. While the compositions basically have the same character as before, now electronica, beats and other ideas have entered. Sometimes as the main ingredients in the arrangements and sometimes just to create space and paint new colours in the background.

He feels a little like a young Peter LeMarc for the 2010’s, with lyrics that least of all feel routine-like; they are written with care, warm and inventive. Here below you can download the first single, the somewhat Springsteen-vibing “Du och jag och Columbus” (“You and Me and Columbus”), but I can hardly say that it’s representative for the album as a whole. The arrangements are varying with it’s own idea for every song. You can listen to the album on Spotify and you can find Kristoffer on his site and on Facebook.

Du och jag och Columbus