Emil Svanängen's music has been described as soulful indie folk with a powerful mini orchestra. Layer upon layer, adding instrumentation and vocals, these songs seem to bloom like time-lapse photography, depicting glimpsed scenes of modern disaffection and timeless yearning. Loney, Noir is at once effervescent and resigned, exhilarating and melancholy, joyous and confessional.[ read more ]

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Loney Dear is the recording name for multi-instrumentalist and Swedish home-recording phenom Emil Svanangen. Dear John is an album of contrasts. It will cozy up to you through the bleakest of winters and be your shade in the blistering summer sun. "Despair has never sounded so sweet" - Spin.

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Loney, Dear is the one man band with nine members. Loney, Dear is also the disguise of multi-instrumentalist and audio homecooking expert Emil Svanängen. In the tiny, sweltering hot Stockholm studio apartment, or in the cool basement of his parents house is where all the magic happens. The outside world has no idea of what's going on. Two records a year is his M.O., and by new years eve of 2009 all is said to come to a close. Everything is recorded in a very modest homestudio setup, using a minidisc mic and   [ read more ]

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