List | A | Adolphson & Falk | 'Indigo' CD 1990

Track:	Name:	Time:
1.	Soloviolin	4:39
2.	När När När	3:55
3.	Du Låter Det Ske	4:39
4.	För Lite Disco	3:14
5.	Alla Vet	4:52
6.	Hav Av Längtan	4:47
7.	På Jakt	5:26
8.	Allt Medan Tågen For Förbi	4:24
9.	Vänd Dig Om	5:13
10.	Festen Är Över	3:51
	Total	45:00

Comments:

As far as I know, this is their last real album (not counting the greatest hits collection Samling released in 1996). Slower, a bit jazzy in places, but still very atmospheric. Good if you want to calm down a bit. All tunes are classic A&F style, and very good indeed, but it's the least synthetic sounding they've ever done. Greg Fitzpatrick isn't around doing the music this time, which could explain it. Instead there are real musicians on real instruments, or synths that sound fairly much like real instruments.

'Soloviolin' is a slow song with a melancholic solo violin setting the style, and lyrics I can't exactly explain what they're about. Surreal or just metaphores? 'När När När' is an upbeat and bouncy jazzy track asking when he can find peace, when he'll understand, when he can forgive. It seems to be about a relationship gone wrong somewhere. 'Du Låter Det Ske' reminds me lyrically of Aha, but it's not nearly as poppy and silly, but more contemplative and mature. He's the one to make the world complicated, and she's the one make him realise it's really not that complex and sometimes it's better to let things just happen. 'För Lite Disco' is a funky upbeat tune about a man caught in his boring life, longing for less of the safe boring life and more of the exciting late-night partying. The lyrics are actually quite clever and funny, with amusing rhymes that are so strained it's impossible to translate, artificially constructed out of several words. Back to the calm, slow contemplative style with 'Alla Vet', where he's thinking about what 'everybody knows' about the world, the simple truths, and he's asking why to go beyond that, why strive to find anwsers for questions without answers. This seems go in the opposite direction of the older songs, praising science and research. Continuing the slow style with 'Hav Av Längtan', an emotional story about two lonely people longing for love, accidently meeting, and leaving what comes next to the imagination. 'På Jakt' is more upbeat and with a hint of funk/jazz, and about a man going to a club to gamble, waiting for the big break. Is this perhaps the same Johnny as in the old Stockholmsserenad? In 'Allt Medan Tågen For Förbi' we return to the slow tempo again, a nostalgic song about the passing of time or perhaps of leaving one's home (or both). 'Vänd Dig Om' is a bit more poppy, melodic and spacey. The lyrics are about regrets in life, and that there's always the chance to turn back and return to what you've left and continue beyond. Returning home after a life out in the world? Or going back to an old lover? 'Festen Är Över' ('The Party Is Over') is perhaps the slowest song on the album, and it's about the empty feeling after something when all the expectiations weren't fulfilled, and about new excitements and possible disappointments. Optimistic and depressing at the same time.

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