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On “Hope on the Horizon”, Boy Omega (Martin Henrik Gustafsson) follows up his critically acclaimed 2006-albums “The Black Tango” and “The Grey Rainbow”, with yet another impressive collection of songs that showcase the growth of his songwriting. As always when you hear a new Boy Omega-record, there’s something new going on. This time it’s a lot less electronic than before. This is something warm and analog, featuring big walls of strings, horns, acoustic pianos etc. It sounds like dogma 95 movies look like: authentic, melancholic and drenched with the bitter beauty of life.

It’s more of a “band album” than a “solo album”. It features no less than 12 other people playing and singing along with Martin. Except for the regular core-members of the Boy Omega Orchestra (Per-Ola Eriksson, Karin Wiberg and Andreas Lassus), members from other swedish bands such as Tiger Lou, Audrey and Irene also contributed.

The album was recorded over the last two years at various locations in Göteborg, Sweden (mainly Kepner Treg Studios and Musikens Hus), in between tours, other recordings and day-to-day life. It was engineered by Per-Ola Eriksson and produced by everyone involved. The band had been trying out most of the songs live before the recordings started, and since they worked very well that way, they decided to record as much as possible live in the studio, and use first or second takes. “During this period of time I listened a lot to the Van Morrisson-album “Veedon Fleece”, Bob Dylan’s “Blonde on blonde”, Nicolai Dunger’s “Soul rush”, Håkan Hellström’s “Ett kolikbarns bekännelser”, the selftitled Broken Social Scene-album and last but not least, a huge pile of Phil Spector and his “wall of sound”-productions. Those albums were an influence in the recording .......
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Boy Omega to kolejna skandynawska propozycja wytwórni Glitterhouse. Skandynawia stanowi pewną enklawę na europejskiej scenie muzycznej, nie tylko pod względem dystrybucyjnym, ale także stylistyzcnym i jakościowym. O wielu artystach popularnych w Szwecji, Norwegii, Finlandii czy w Danii nie wiemy w Europie nic, dopiero gdy takie wytwórnie jak Glitterhouse, zwracają na nich uwagę, nam również otwierają się oczy. tak było z Midnight Choir, White Birch czy Washington. Eksplorując tamtejszą sceną Glitterhouse sięgnął tym razem po nowy, czwarty już album szwedzkiego songwritera Martina Gustafssona. Dwie poprzednie płyty Boy Omega ("The Black Tango" i "The Grey Rainbow") zebrały świetne recenzje w prasie nie tylko skandynawskiej, warto się więc zainteresować tymi delikatnymi, świeżymi piosenkami.
Martin Gustaffson miał zostać piłkarzem, ale zamiast strzelać bramki, tworzy ciepłe, pełne serca piosenki, nagrane analogowo (!) z delikatnymi pasażami smyczkowymi, masą akustycznych instrumentów.

Niemieckie pismo muzyczne "Spex" tak pisalo o tej płycie:
"W Szwecji wszystko jest lepsze, tak się mówi (...) Boy omega to kolejny bohater, który potwierdza tą teorię"


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Martin’s voice is the hook. In the past, reviewers have mentioned it alongside Robert Smith (The Cure), Elliott Smith, Win Butler (Arcade Fire), Conor Oberst (Bright Eyes), Will Oldham, Sam Beam (Iron & Wine), Kristofer Åström (Fireside/Hidden Truck) etc. So even if it may be reminiscent of many, it’s without a doubt uniquely his own.

Besides from recording “Hope...”, releasing two albums, a tour-cd (feat. 15 rare tracks and covers), two singles, the split cd “If we were oceans” (w/ Kristofer Åström, Racingpaperplanes and Two Times The Trauma) and appearing on the Magnetic Fields tribute cd “Our love is meaningless”, Boy Omega also managed to play more than 60 shows in 2006. Germ.......
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