Bolywool - Canada (2021)

I discovered the Swedish VÅRØ records recently but I'm already convinced this is a source of some quality noisy music from Scandinavia. The new thing that caught my attention is the comeback from the Calle Thoor and Oskar Karlström duo called Bolywool. Two years after their last release, they are showing a new EP called Canada.

This very short album is called "the perfect mix of stunning minimalism and magnificent experimentalism". In practice, it simply means noisy pop. But it's good and I really appreciate it: there's melodies that carry those mellow tracks and there's noisy ambiance that fills the backgrounds. There's also something exceptionally attractive about the vocals that are not only dreamy and suitably distorted but can also show this indie rock's bittersweet colours that make me think of The Autumns or maybe Hard-Fi from their best times. That's why Inertia is THE song for me on this album. But it is surrounded with moody, noise-friendly but also Scandinavia-like artful tracks (Jónsi vibes alert, especially in the closing For S No 1) that work with or without lyrics as well. 

Those warm and relaxing vibes I get throughout the quarter-long album are no coincidence as that was its point, as the label states it: "in times of uncertainty they groped for something safely and wanted to make songs about that kind of security you felt as a child". And it works.

Canada costs 4 EUR.

Check: Inertia

Country: Sweden

Genre: noise pop

Label: VÅRØ

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