Label: Desolation
Release: February 13 2007
Hometown: SWE



7.5 (out of 10)


Of all the things that Sweden has given the world, combinations of outstanding instruments and Helena Sundin are definitely a few of the best on the list. Taking on the hardships that encompass making a solo album, Helena has taken her ideas and made a diary that posted her desires, questions, and wonders and made an album that expresses all of those to the masses. I must admit, when I Daydream, it is about Cake most of the time, lets see if it is this time.

   Cherub rock is an understatement as the classical and tangible "Come On Rainbow" rings and chimes its way in my ears. This album seems to want to spill its guts on everything, in all of its Technicolor dreaminess. Don't get me wrong, I love elevator music and this album seems to form around the cheery strings of sounds that elevators pump out to sooth your trips in their small dimensions. Tracks like "I Guess I Was Daydreaming" and "Sparrow Parade" continue with a fermented beat that repeats in the background and then has a piano to strengthen its over tones, as a beautiful songstress mends gorgeous amounts of melody and rhythm into each note and section. "Franciose" introduces a certainly more calm beat, not like the beats before this were crazy or anything, but this has more of a tedious tone to it with sound bytes of all kinds. The CD is arranged with many short thoughts all put together to make one big combination of ideas and beliefs. Songs such as "Lost Friendship" give their brief glimpses of gentle bright lights and create lullabies that swoon us to a relaxed sleep and let you slip out of any sense of time. When your music takes on an art form of its own, you know you have created something extremely creative like the stage production of Stomp or something by The Sounds of Animals Fighting. With songs like "Slowly, Slowly" the music seem to make more sense and even with their nontraditional formations, they allow for a amazingly soothing song. The album also ends well with the gentle kisses that "English Music" and "The One I Say Goodnight To" oblige us with. Their waves of positive energy seem to be more effective than any thick therapy massage as the sweet Swedish vocals melt over your thoughts and stay with you the many times this CD enters your stereo.

   You can't seem to do wrong when your music brings a metaphorical magic and relaxing feelings to the people that listen. To that end, this album feels like one big song, as although there are many variations in the way that many of the songs are put together, the over all sound and theme remains the same for a large quantity of it. This by no means makes this a bad album, and if anything by the repeating the great sound we are able to truly appreciate it. And in the end, if something isn't broken, why fix it?

~ Pernell
December 16 2006


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