Artist  | Laurel Music
Title   | Sacred Heart

Genre   | Indie                                Format  | 7" Single
Source  | Vinyl                                Time    | 4:31

Label   | Labrador Records                     Store   | 2002
Catalog | LAB 038                              Rip     | 2019

Bitrate | 268 kbps                             Size    | 9.12 MB
Freq    | 44.1 kHz                             Encoder | Lame 3.100

A1. Sacred Heart                                                1:59
B1. When Stars Begin To Fall                                    2:32

An outlet for the heartfelt classicist folk-pop songs of Tobias Isaksson,
Laurel Music came about after the songwriter sent a demo to eminent Swedish
indie Labrador Records. Won over by his sweet and sensitive compositions
but leery of his 'less than beautiful' singing voice, the label heads
suggested that Isaksson collaborate with vocalist Malin Dahlberg of Douglas
Heart.

At the time the two were living in separate cities (Dahlberg lived in Umea,
Isaksson in Goteborg), but they exchanged letters and mixtapes, bonding
over a shared love of Ida, the Smiths, Tim Hardin, and the Walker Brothers,
among various other folk and indie notables. The pair recorded several
songs for a Labrador compilation before expanding to a three-piece with the
addition of Douglas Heart drummer Max Sjoholm.

Following a couple of singles, "This Night And The Next" appeared in 2004,
an easygoing batch of soft, distinctly country-inflected pop tunes recorded
by the trio with some additional instrumental input from friends (in its
live incarnation, the band has appeared with anywhere between two and six
people). They recorded a second album the following summer, inspired by
'80s and '90s guitar pop and given the working title "Cycles", but it
remained unreleased for several years.

In the meantime, Dahlberg and Sjoholm continued as members of Douglas
Heart, while Isaksson finally got his chance to sing, fronting the
retro-styled pop collective Irene and later solo project Azure Blue, and
Dahlberg started the solo project We Are Soldiers We Have Guns.

JCE GCP iMPG BERC diss GRAVEWISH NuHS r35 FuFFeNS KLV FWYH