release date: Oct. 31, 2012
format: digital
[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,58]
producer: Christian Walz (1-4, 7, 8, 10); Bo Kaspers Orkester (5, 6, 9)
label: Columbia / Sony Music Entertainment - nationality: Sweden
Track highlights: 1. "Festen" - 2. "Världens ände" (4 / 5) (live) - 3. "Längre upp i bergen" (4 / 5) - 5. "Utan dig" (4 / 5) - 7. "Vilket år" - 8. "Jag är vacker ikväll" - 9. "Mitt rätta jag" - 10. "Kom" (4 / 5)
10th studio album by Bo Kaspers Orkester is the 10th studio album in 20 years. The album has generally been met with positive reviews, and it appears to be one of the band's stylistic changes. I still find it a bit difficult to digest as a Bo Kaspers Orkester release but the production is pretty fine just like the total picture. Some tracks are mere jazz pop compositions but the majority of tracks are smooth, laid back music, which has references to lounge but not in the way the band has played with that style before and on its earliest albums. Instead, this is a modern version of lounge, which is more in family with synth-pop - a genre BKO never has excelled in. Without coping they play in a way that makes me think of The Killers on their most recent albums and two other great Scandinavian bands, the Danish band Love Shop and the greatest band in Sweden as well as all Nordic countries: Kent. It's not bad, not at all. I'm just not really ready to embrace it as great, but it seems like one of the band's better studio releases.
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