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Summersound RecordingsReviewsVarious ArtistsThe Sound Of Young Sweden (CD) First Motown gave us the Sound of Young America... then Postcard gave us the Sound of Young Scotland... now the new Swedish label Summersound are at it too, and if this is the sound of young Sweden, then Sweden must be a very good place to be young right now. Seven Swedish bands contribute two tracks each, many exclusive to this record. The compilation opens with probably the best song that the Leslies have ever recorded, and ends with the best of the many remixes of Club 8's Missing You. In-between the Concretes give us two intriguingly angular songs, while the Shermans and label proprietors the Acid House Kings dish up the high quality pop you would expect from them. But it is the less well known Edson who provide the record's crowning glory in the form of Sunday, Lovely Sunday, with the lyric "Holding hands with the one I love, she wears mittens and I wear gloves" reason enough to buy this record in itself. Only the Swedish indie old-timers HappyDeadMen sound out of place here, with their more bitter take on guitar pop jarring with the uplifting exuberance of the other songs. |
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