ABOUT THIS ITEM

Loney, Dear is the disguise of multi-instrumentalist and audio home-cooking expert Emil Svanängen. While the outside world rushes by unaware, Emil conjures Loney, Dear songs alone in his tiny Stockholm studio apartment, or in the basement of his parents' house in Jönköping. Using a very modest home studio set-up, with a mini-disc microphone and a set of headphones to avoid disturbing his neighbours, he has recorded and then released himself on CD-R four albums in the last two or three years. When Emil recently moved and had to get rid of his floor lamp, he finally budged and bought his first mic stand. On stage Emil is joined by friends Samuel Starck (keyboards), Malin Ståhlberg (tambourine, vocals, keys), Ola Hultgren (drums), and David Lindvall (bass). Layer upon layer, adding instrumentation and vocals, the songs on "Loney, Noir" seem to bloom like time-lapse photography, depicting glimpsed scenes of modern disaffection and timeless yearning. Somebody described the music of Loney, Dear as, 'soulful indie folk with a powerful mini orchestra' which is likely the closest call to date. You decide.