release date: Jan. 1987
format: vinyl (STAT 1) / cd
[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,54]
producer: Anders Glenmark
label: The Record Station - nationality: Sweden
Track highlights: 1. "Jag klär av mej naken" - 2. "Ung och stolt" - 3. "Skeppet" - 5. "Little Darling" - 8. "Fromme mannen" - 9. "Allt för dej" - 10. "Mitt liv"
6th studio album by Eva Dahlgren released 2½ years after Ett fönster mot gatan (Aug. 1984) establishing her as one of the most critically-acclaimed Swedish singer / songwriters within a predominantly rock sphere in the late 1980's. The album was the first album that I listened to and also aquired with Dahlgren somewhere around 1988. She was handed the Swedish Grammis for the first time for this album in the category Best Female Pop / Rock Artist in 1987. Danish artist Sanne Salomonsen features as backing vocalist on several tracks.
The album now feels somewhat dated - the bold use of flanger and waow-guitar effect pedals, and the heavy 80's drums doesn't add to the qualities - but it nevertheless shows Dahlgren as a prominent Swedish energetic rock artist with an ear for both quiet ballads, epic and theatrical elements with hints of glam rock, and electrifying and more traditional rock compositions. This still remains one of her best albums.
