RIKTIGT ÄKTA

I was a bit disappointed with this album, which I found much later as it's releasing. I believe "Riktigt Äkta" had a huge impact for the prog scene of the 1990's among Anekdoten's "Vemod", but like with the group referred, I feel their later albums which found first sound much better. The tracks "Trädet" and "Visa från Kallsedet" were the most pleasing and artistically interesting compositions from this album for me, but what annoyed me most was that I already knew these songs from their "Lonely Land" CD, which is a re-release of the same material with English lyrics. I'm not totally comfortable with this kind of recycling. I think they should have decided to do this either in English or Swedish, as now there are two albums with same songs being sold in the markets, with different titles and album covers to fulfill the confusion of the poor record collector. Maybe there were some ideas of testing the impact of language on both domestic and global markets. Maybe this solution was fruitful, as the tendency continued on following mini CD's. Most of the songs are also slightly boring to be frank, and I found them more like retro oriented that progressive rock oriented. Some charming whispers of emotion still sure present in the first steps of these sincere musicians.