Next Stop: Horizon ‘We Know Where We’re Going’ (Tapete Records)
Next Stop: Horizon is the name of a duo from Gothenburg, Sweden, consisting of Par Hagstrpm and Jenny Roos. Quite surprisingly, for a record that sounds both so modern and utterly archaic (like, at least sixty years old in parts) it is their debut.
The album mixes pop with a type of jazz that evokes both Kurt Weill andTom Waits (minus the forty full-strenth Marlboro vocal stylings of the latter). The end result is an album that manages to be experimental and yet utterly listenable; quirky without being irritatingly kooky.
Whilst I wouldn’t go so far as to say I fell in love with this album, it is very definitely a joy to listen to all the different aspects of this record meshing together and creating something hugely different from the vast majority of the music I have heard this year. Definitely worth hearing.
***1/2
We Know Where We’re Going is out now on Tapete Records