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Failures and Spark

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The Chrysler - Failures and Spark Color me pleasantly surprised. Until a little under an hour ago, I had been operating under the (perhaps wholly unfair) assumption that every band out of Sweden was either some post-disco bastardization, or a long-haired fuzz-fueled nuevo-garage band. The Chrysler couldn’t be further from the two, had it made a conscious effort to distance itself from its countrymen and women. Failures and Spark is a sound infinitely more subtle, far more akin to that of their Norwegian neighbors, The Kings of Convenience, who so proudly declared quiet the new loud on their second LP, wearing the influence of the Greenwich Village folk scene proudly on their shirt sleeves, co-vocalist Anders E. Rudstrom channeling a young (if less angsty) Dylan in his more ecstatic moments.

The songs on Failures and Sparks are beautiful in their own quiet simplicity, vocals at points resembling both a more low-key Tyrannosaurus-era Marc Bolan and the harmonies of early Simon and Garfunkel, accompanied lightly plucked guitar, minimal bass, the occasional melodica, and a sporadic appearances by a revolving cast of intentionally underwhelming instruments. The lyrics too are rooted in simplicity, owed most likely to language barriers, but certainly not subtracting from the overall charm of the music.

The Chrysler’s debut will almost certainly appeal to most fans of quiet folk, as the band managed an accomplished entry into the maintaining whimsy without falling into the ever-present indie trappings of quaintness and twee. It’s more simply an accomplished debut, it’s a completely listenable and wholly enjoyable record unto itself.

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Failures and Spark

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