This morning I’ve been listening to Robert Dahlqvist’s new album “Solo”. It was launched in the beginning of October and is what it says: his solo debut, after years in Hellacopters and then Dundertåget. The start of the album “Jag Va Kött och Blod” is probably the strongest album start I’ve listened to in a long time and I think it’s hard to come any closer to someone with recorded music than what he does here. The sound feels retro-seventish, not in an artificial way; it’s very much here and now. With this he goes on with the likewise naked “Det Tog En Lång Tid“, which I’ve presented before, and then alternates between pure rock’n’roll tunes and softer, closer tunes on a quite varied album. He doesn’t complicate things; the gentle love for melodies, guitar sounds and and an open heart goes a long way, a very long way. I wouldn’t mind hearing more of this. Here are two of the singles from the record.

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