Månskensbonden - Svindel & Lågtryck

Facts Vaasa's highest point, Öjberget, rises no higher than 50 meters above sea level. Nearby is one of Ostrobothnia's greatest sights, Söderfjärden, a meteorite crater that today is mostly a large flat field of farmland. Trying to leave such a landscape, where the inland ice has flattened everything that once tried to rise toward the sky, you can easily get dizzy.

That is also what Månskensbonden gets on his third album, “Svindel & lågtryck” (Septembernatt). After writing one album about growing up in the countryside and another about coming back, the trilogy is now complete. On the new album he leaves his Ostrobothnia behind, only to be swallowed by the waves of the English Channel, wander the shadows of Chicago's skyscrapers, drift sleepless through Paris, and be lashed by rain in Gothenburg.

The album was recorded with Henrik Oja (Säkert!) in Umeå, with members of Honungsvägen and Vasas Flora och Fauna, among others. A Kvarken record, quite simply. On the album, Månskensbonden takes his starting point in the American storytelling tradition (“three chords and the truth”), but travels through the new wave era of Britain before finally landing in a contemporary Nordic indie pop.