Friska Viljor – Remember Our Name

Friska Viljor was founded by Daniel Johansson and Joakim Sveningsson in Stockholm more than seven years ago. It was by chance the two ended up in a studio and recorded the first album Bravo!, which was released in 2006. Tour de Hearts and For New Beginning followed in 2008 and 2009. The Beginning of the Beginning of the End in 2011. The Swedes undertook ever more extensive tours through Europe and gained experience.

Now, Friska Viljor continue to write their story. Remember Our Name is a smorgasbord of danceable, driving songs and curious sounds. The album follows no obvious concept. The songs are so heterogeneous that the new disc seems self-contained again. It's like opening the door to a long-forgotten storage room. I'm not talking about the musty smell and dusty air but about the many white linen cloths hiding an unknown world. There's a song under each cloth, and every time you slowly pull away the cloth to reveal what's underneath, it's a surprise.

Generally and roughly, Friska Viljor can be assigned to indie folk. Boom Boom, for example, confirms that this is too narrow a categorisation. Here, the band comes across as unusually electronic but just as dancefloor-compatible and enticing. In addition, the northern Europeans used a whole arsenal of exciting, atypical elements, as before: chorales, saw blades, or clarinet.

Constantly referring to their roots—folk music—Friska Viljor sometimes step on the gas and sometimes take it easy. They can afford to do this because only in this way can they give the listener time to reflect on the adventures and reawaken the longing for them. Even when things are leisurely and folky, the successful Swedish duo avoids sentimentally melancholy music. The songs simply create a good mood.

Friska Viljor – Remember Our Name

Release: 18/01/2013

1. Did You Ever
2. Stalker
3. Bite Your Head Off
4. Boom Boom
5. Easy Is Hard
6. I'm Not Done
7. Streetlights
8. The F
9. Until The End
10. Flageoletten
11. Remember My Name