12 October 2015

Eva Dahlgren "Ung och stolt" (1987)

Ung och stolt
release date: 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 establishing herself as one of the most critically-acclaimed Swedish singer / songwriters within a predominantly rock sphere of the late 1980's. The album was the first album that I listened to and also bought with Dahlgren somewhere around 1988. She was handed the Swedish Grammis for the first time with this album, as best female pop / rock artist in 1987. Danish artist Sanne Salomonsen features as backing vocalist on several tracks. The album is somewhat dated - the bold use of flanger and waou-guitar effect pedals, and the heavy 80's drums - but it still 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 the more electrifying and more traditional rock compositions. This is still one of her best albums.