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Concert Fri Mar 16 2007
Loney is Not Lonely Misspelled
If you missed the eccentric piano pop of Frida Hyvonen and the avant-somber marches of Under Byen at the Abbey Pub earlier this week, fear not: your quota of Scandanavian pop for the week can still be met! Sweden's Loney, Dear, masterminded by pop savant Nils-Emil Svanangen, is gracing Schubas' stage Sunday evening. With Loney, Noir, the group's first stateside LP out on Sub Pop, Emil combines warm tones, jazzy instrumentation, and a troubadour vocal delivery that at times recalls fellow European crooners Sondre Lerche, Travis’ Francis Healey, and occasionally even Sigur Ros’ Jon Thor Birgisson, to create a genre-hopping sound in the best sense of the term. The mixed medium effect is devastatingly good - quirky folk slides into jazzy horns and back out again, while layered harmonies emote in perfect time. Seeing this kind of songwriting played out live, especially within the confines of Schubas' intimacy, should be dynamite. But no worries: if you've got plans this Sunday, Loney, Dear will be back to Chicago sooner than you think opening for slowcore giants Low at the Metro on Friday, April 13.
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