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This Swedish indie pop outfit began to make an
international breakthrough in 1993. The line-up initially comprised
Andreas Mattsson (vocals/guitar), Fredrik Norberg (vocals/guitar), Kenny
Vikstrom (bass) and Per-Arne Wikander (drums), who met on a school trip
to Stockholm. They formed in the mid-80s and experimented with a number
of musical styles before establishing themselves as Popsicle in 1991.
The boisterous, Anglophile songs on Lacquer, especially the brazen pop
of ‘Hey Princess’, earned them a Scandinavian Grammy two years later,
and they briefly enjoyed infamy upon its presentation. Norberg’s
inebriated acceptance speech included a death wish fatwa on Sweden’s
Eurovision Song Contest entrants of that year. Vikstrom was replaced on
bass by Arvid Lind in time for Abstinence, at which time they had signed
an international recording contract with Telegram Records, an imprint
of Warner Brothers Records. Particularly on their self-titled album, the
listener is constantly reminded that the band are singing in a foreign
tongue; the mantric instrumental passages of tracks such as ‘Third
Opinion’ and ‘Soft’, however, are wholly satisfying.
Tracklist
| 1 | Good With Us | 3:11 |
| 2 | Not Forever | 3:37 |
| 3 | Speed It Up | 4:11 |
| 4 | Please Don't Ask | 4:23 |
| 5 | Third Opinion | 6:25 |
| 6 | Use My Name | 3:10 |
| 7 | Sadly Missing | 3:22 |
| 8 | American Poet | 4:18 |
| 9 | A Song Ago | 3:59 |
| 10 | Soft | 8:05 |
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