Three years ago I wrote about Stefan Leoson and his album “Pennies and Heartaches”. He then also gave me a song as a taste of a follow-up album, that I included in the post. After a while, though, he felt that he ran into a dead-end with the route he was following, and decided to start all over again. He created the artist name HMS Leoson (His Majesty Stefan Leoson), and in January he released the debut EP “The One Man Tribe EP”.

And even if the nice melodies and the big sound are still there, this is a completely different Leoson we’re seeing here. It feels like if the cork has been removed from the bottle and out pours everything that he wants to say and do. It’s darker, rawer and sharper under the name of a character who wants to take on the world. It’s done with tounge in cheek but at the same time it feels honest and direct, a mix of who you want to be and who you’d like to pretend to be.

The EP is actually a first taste of the upcoming album “Superior Being” and the song here below, he describes as a program declaration for the album. You can follow HMS Leoson on Facebook. You can also listen on the Bandcamp page or on Spotify.

Royal Parasite