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Love on tour

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Following the release of her bedroom recorded debut EP, ‘Kind of Hurt’, Swedish indie pop aficionado Nora Karlsson returns under the moniker Boys, with her latest four-track instalment, ‘Love on Tour’. First and foremost, this EP is a honeyed and reverb-drenched syrup made up in equal parts of Karlsson’s sweet yet schmaltzy vocal and an idiosyncratic brand of twee, psychedelic instrumentalism. A sticky sweet 15 minutes of saccharinity, Boys’ second release is poignantly oozy, and succeeds in capturing a trickling, rippling blend of emotion; it is an amalgam of post-tour depression and the inevitably accepted listlessness that embodies the life of anyone floating through their early 20s, experiencing everything from longing to homesickness.

First track and lead single, ‘Happy Hour’, is a winding and remarkably up beat number, which sees Karlsson’s intricate and repetitive vocal framed by a backdrop of Hannes Fern’s chattering drum beats and a series of delicate guitar riffs, which swims with ease into the Dum Dum Girls-esque maudlin of ‘All My Friends’. The second track, a seeming embodiment of musical and instrumental compartmentalisation, breezes through the melancholia of its own first half, only to be led, via Karlsson’s keyboard-centric melody, to bleed into its positive and rattling final notes. As if one song made up of two completely separate ones, ‘All My Friends’ is four minutes of sugared shoegaze that woozily juxtaposes sentiments that appear to sit on polar ends of the emotional spectrum.

‘In My Mind’ and ‘Seventeen’, the tracks which make up the second half of ‘Love on Tour’ round up the EP with an apparent musical matter-of-factness. As the tempo of ‘In My Mind’ surges and rushes, only to drop and droop, one begins to get the sense that for Karlsson, this EP is a kind of melodic diary of events and emotions that fluctuates in unison with, and as dictated by, the very sensations and passions she is articulating. Just as is embodied by the echoing and colloquial nature of Karlsson’s drawling, almost purring vocal stylings in ‘Seventeen’, one can’t help but get the feeling that more than anything, ‘Love on Tour’ is an EP laced with raw and honest expression of feeling. If I was friends with Karlsson, I imagine she’d chat to me, cuppa’ in hand, about the very same sentiments that make up the tender contents of this very personal EP.

- Rosie Samsden for Goldflakepaint

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released May 30, 2017

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