Loney, Dear: Hall Music – review

(Something in Construction)"Words fail," notes Emil Svanängen part-way through Hall Music. It probably isn't intentional, but that sliver of lyric sums up the thinking behind his sixth album as Loney, Dear. Love is too complicated, too ecstatic, too painful, to articulate without drifting into cliche ("Last night I dreamed about you again"), sentimentality ("I want your name next to mine"), or petulance ("I wanted someone seeing how sad I was"). So Svanängen communicates that monstrous compl...

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