Multi-instrumentalist and home-recording phenom Emil
Svanängen lives in Sweden and he makes records and plays
shows under the somewhat inscrutable name of Loney, Dear.
In either his tiny Stockholm studio apartment or the basement
of his parents’ house, and with a dedication bordering upon
manic, Emil discreetly builds Loney, Dear songs using a
modest home studio set-up. In this way he has recorded and
then released himself on CD-R four albums in the last two
or three years. He has managed to sell several thousand of
these, pretty much on his own.
The music of Loney, Dear has been aptly described as,
“soulful indie folk with a powerful mini orchestra.” Layer
upon layer, adding instrumentation and vocals, these songs
seem to bloom like time-lapse photography, depicting
glimpsed scenes of modern disaffection and timeless
yearning. When performing live, Loney, Dear becomes the
band Emil conjures alone in his home studio, and mutates
into a full, five-member band complete with guitar, sax,
drums, organ and clarinet, shouts and claps.
Loney, Noir is the most recently recorded Loney, Dear
album. It is at once effervescent and resigned, exhilarating
and melancholy, joyous and confessional. And we are under its spell.
Release Date: Feb 6, 2007