In the mood for some soul-searching Scandinavian dream pop? You should be, because Falun, Sweden’s Francis has provided us a tremendous eleven-song batch of just that with the release of their new album Marathon (via their self-run label Strangers Candy).
As the title implies, the record feels like a draining yet ultimately rewarding journey through a long period of trying circumstances. There’s a pensive melancholy to it that submerges you in a forty-five minute watercolor world of emotion, an experience neatly sealed by the glistening final track “Follow Me Home.”
If you’ve ever been on any sort of lengthy road trip, you’ll know what I mean when I say that “Follow Me Home” is the perfect song for those endless stretches of middle-of-nowhere highway where the sun is setting behind some mountains you’ve never heard of and you’re entirely lost in your own existential thoughts. It’s distractingly good. Petra Mases’s smooth vocals intertwined with chugging drums, fluttering piano, and reverberating guitar licks is a formula for an immersive daydreamy sound not unlike the work of Wye Oak and The War On Drugs. Throw it on loop and you’ll have listened to it twenty-five times before you know it, I promise.
SIMILAR SONGS
