release date: Oct. 16, 2000
format: cd
[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,38]
Track highlights: 1. "Känn ingen sorg för mig Göteborg" (4 / 5) - 2. "En vän med en bil" - 3. "Ramlar" - 4. "Nu kan du få mig så lätt" (4 / 5) - 5. "Vi två, 17 år" (4 / 5) - 8. "Magiskt, men tragiskt" - 9. "Atombomb"
Studio album debut by Håkan Hellström. The album was probably the best received album in Sweden that year and Håkan went from being fairly unknown to a star overnight after his single-hit with the song "Känn ingen sorg för mig Göteborg", which had been released a few months ahead of the album. The album sold "platinum" and was nominated for 6 Grammis in Sweden later that year, and won the national prize, "Rockbjörnen" for best album. The music is proclaimed indie pop, although I don't think that is a very fitting description. It's more singer / songwriter jangle pop / rock, inspired by The Smiths and Morrissey ("Atombomb" is very close to Morrissey's "Everyday Is Like Sunday") and pop soul as performed by Dexys Midnight Runners, which basically is to say: British music of the 1980s, but also music with bonds to more traditional folk pop and pop soul of the 1970s. Thematically, the songs are about teenage life with partying, and lost and unrequited love. The personnel on the album is almost the same people who contributed to the albums with "Broder Daniel", including most of the former band members including Daniel Gilbert on guitar who continues to work with Hellström on his forthcoming solo albums.
