Corduroy already made me hyped with their single earlier this year and now they are ready with their debut album released by, of course, VÅRØ label. The band are from Norrköping, a Swedish city that's known for its industrial past and so can be compared to Manchester; no wonder this makes Corduroy music easily comparable to music from the English city.
It is an attractive indie pop with a great dose of noise in the backgrounds and pretty, airy and multi-layered vocals on top. The melodies are swift and catchy and the guitars that occupy most of the space here - are psychedelic in the best way they can be. Surprisingly often they are the main actors here, there are parts devoted mostly to them throughout the whole release while vocals take a rest on the side - there's a healthy deal of psychedelic guitar riffs all over the place and the musicians don't shy away from this rock heritage. I feel like towards the end of the album, the guitars more often create the more shoegazey walls of noise, especially touching in my favourite Gråa dagar.
Also the theme of the album revolves around Norrköping's history and its modern life in which it experiences the "progress towards a post-industrial society where factories have become fancy flats and juice bars". While overall it doesn't look positive in the musicians' eyes, the ultimate message is that you can always "rely on your friends, the music and the local bar" and this is something I like.
Corduroy costs 7 EUR.
Check: Gråa dagar
Country: Sweden
Genre: noisy indie pop
Label: VÅRØ
