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I had a charming, diffident, somewhat language impaired interview with Loney, Dear's Emil Svanägen last month, and the results are posted today at PopMatters:

Here's a bit to get you started:

"It’s time to take the headphones off.

For the last five years, Loney, Dear’s Emil Svanägen has been spending much of his free time holed up in friends’ apartments and his parents’ basement, headphones on, all alone, making fragile, melancholy pop songs that explode into synthesized orchestral profusion. Working solo, he has crafted four delicately beautiful, densely instrumented CD-Rs that skitter with the euphoria and tremble with the uncertainty of being alone. But now, as indie giant Sub Pop has purchased all four CDs and released the fourth Loney, Noir, Svanägen’s songs, and Svanägen himself, are shyly entering the wider world." (And more here: http://www.popmatters.com/pm/features/article/31621/complex-music-for-everyone-an-interview-with-loney-dear/)

I was telling my friend Kent that Loney, Dear made almost no impression on me whilst listening in my car, but the second I put the headphones on, I said "Ohhhhhhhh....that's it." So find yourself a quiet place and a good source of sound and try these MP3s out.

"The City, The Airport" http://www.windishagency.com/mp3/loneydear.mp3

"I Am John" http://www.subpop.com/assets/audio/2945.mp3

"Carrying a Stone" http://www.teamclermont.com/mp3/LoneyDear-CarryingAStone.mp3