Northern Loner – Utanför (EP – Northern Loner)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Cinematographic-Pop.
Format: Digital.
Background/Info: Northern Loner is a Swedish solo-project driven by Magnus Norr who you might know from his involvement with The Girl And The Robot, Deadbeat and his newest project Le Volt.
Content: The EP features 4 sweet sounding cuts, which are somewhere driven through a cinematographic approach. It’s a dreamy sound experience with slow rhythms and Swedish vocals. The last song is a bit more elaborated and reminds me of Pet Shop Boys.
+ + + : I like an old-school EP with 4 songs. The songs are perfect as background music although the last cut entitled “I Skuggan Av En Lind” sounds a bit different; there’s a more explicit melody line while the production is more minimal and yet more elaborated than the other songs.
– – – : I’m not that convinced about the first 3 songs, which are missing substance and catchy elements. I also heard more convincing work from this project, which was less driven by this dreamy, Cinematographic approach.
Conclusion: I’ve been more convinced with the other projects of Magnus Norr although it feels like there’s more potential hiding inside Northern Loner.
Best songs: “I Skuggan Av En Lind”.
Rate: 5½.
Artist: www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100019057216619
About Northern Loner
Northern Loner is the solo project of Swedish musician Magnus Norr, who also works with The Girl And The Robot, Deadbeat and Le Volt. Discogs holds an entry for the project but lists no profile text.
The earliest release documented on Discogs is the limited cassette album “Odd Man Out”, issued by Repartiseraren and Invisible Guy in 2018. Side-Line reviewed the EP “The Blank Spot” in May 2021.
“Utanför” was released on 24 September 2021 as a digital download through Norr’s own Bandcamp page. The EP holds four tracks: “Inuti men utanför”, “Nostalgi”, “Jag somnar om” and “I skuggan av en lind”.
The album “The Paper City Conspiracy” followed in 2022 and was also reviewed by Side-Line.
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