The 1984 Listening Post - Twice a Man - From a Northern Shore

Twice a Man - From a Northern Shore

#132

May 1984

Twice a Man

From a Northern Shore

3 out of 5

Music accompaniment for an Observatory space show. Moody, spacey, trippy synth-songs devoid of hooks but you get the sense that Twice a Man doesn’t give a shit about any of that. They are writing for themselves and the movies in their heads. 

Someday I’m going to find a book about the music of Sweden. (I won’t write it cuz I can barely muster the brain power for 200 words essays. But, ABBA, Max Martin, Ace of Base, Twice a Man, The Helicopters,Thunder Express,  Roxette, The Cardigans, Robyn, Jens Lenkman, Lykke Li…the list goes on. That Twice a Man is still working, releasing music and has almost no footprint in the US is not totally unexpected. These two take themselves very seriously and have that perspective that it’s the problem with everyone else that they were not commercial. At least that’s one of them. Lead vocalist Soderqvist has that perspective. But to quote his partner, Karl Gasleben, the band’s instrumentalist, “We are not commercial.”

I’ll say. 

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/from-a-northern-shore/1053171373