Club 8: The Boy Who Couldn’t Stop Dreaming

Elly Roberts reviews

Club 8: The Boy Who Couldn’t Stop Dreaming
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  • January 2008
  • Rating: 10/10

Summer album, in winter. Yes, really.

It was bound to happen, and it has, on this gorgeous offering from Swedish duoClub 8, on their sixth album.

They’ve been knocking around for some 13 years now, experimenting with all mannerof styles: bossa nova, triphop, dance, indie rock and chillout.

For The Boy Who Couldn’t Stop Dreaming they’ve reverted to the latter,apparently their forte.

Karolina Komstedt (vocals) and Johan Angergard (all instruments) this time go all out with some pretty impressive cool and melodic ditties, ranging from classy60s pop ballads (In The Morning/Where Birds Don’t Fly) that draw on thegentler side hippydom, to the more upbeat slices of pop. Karolina’s hushed andseductive singing (you know the way French singers do it) makes it sound almostlike ‘sex in the studio’.


Above all, these songs are meant for listening, and enjoying, as they’re some ofthe most tender you’re ever going to hear. It’s not all mellow though, becausethey can switch code and belt out a good dance tune too, such as Heavenand Madonna-like Whatever You Want (her Holiday comes to mind).

Piano-heavy Leave The North is a standout track because of Karolina’sghosting and haunting larynx weaving and floating around the keys and strings,but the jewel in the crown has to be the stunning ballad Hopes And Dreams.

File under: Yummy.

Weblinks:club-8.org /myspace.com/club8


The full list of tracks included are :

1. Jesus, Walk With Me
2. Whatever You Want
3. Football Kids
4. Hopes And Dreams
5. Everything Goes
6. Heaven
7. When I Come Around
8. Leave The North
9. In The Morning
10. Sometimes
11. Where Birds Don’t Fly
12. The Boy Who Couldn’t Stop Dreaming

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