Sagabond – “Easy Rhymes and Metaphors”
A little more than a month ago, Sagabond released their new album “Easy Rhymes and Metaphors”. The band has now grown to a septet with a wide range of instruments: vocals, guitars, violin, cello, saxophone, piano, bass, drums.
If the recordings we wrote about before had a live-feeling in the production, this is more a skilled studio production. The folk vibes remain and are even amplified and altogether the album turns out to be a beautiful collection of five songs of indie folk-pop with nice melodies and arrangements where they really use all the instruments to colour the music.
You can listen to the album on Spotify or on Deezer and you can follow the band on Facebook. You can also find some tracks on Soundcloud. Here is “Echoes”:
Sagabond started out as Mikael Ingebäck’s solo project, but turned into a band with a permanent line-up during 2008. Last year they released the album “Strings”, and the album name suggests to some extent what the music is about, as strings, ie cello and violin, play an important part in their music. Together with saxophone, piano and of course bass, guitars and drums, it turns into a kind of orchestral grand pop with a touch of folk music. Listen for yourself here below in two tracks from “Strings”:
