Genre/Influences: Italo-Disco, Electro-Pop.

Format: Digital.

Background/Info: Swedish artist Carl Eric last year released several singles and the excellent debut-album “The Garden”. The EP “Liquid Courage” was released by the end of the year featuring five songs.

Content: The opening song “Games” was already released as a single and is a new, great, Italo-Disco exposure. The other songs left are mixing Italo-Disco and Electro-Pop; happy Electro featuring male- and female vocals.

+ + + : “Games” is a pure earworm featuring a danceable kick, a cool, vintage, melodic tune, 80s Disco effects and male-/female vocals with easy reminding vocals on top you’ll all start to sing during the chorus. Carl Eric stands for an impressive, top notch, qualitative, production. The songs are masterly crafted and carried by alluring melody lines while there’s a cool match between male- and female vocals. I like the vintage sound treatments the songs have been made by. 

– – – : The songs are now and then a bit too short so the single remedy is to press the repeat button.

Conclusion: Carl Eric remains to me one of the most promising and talented contemporary Italo-Disco artists. 

Best songs: “Games”, “Head Over Heels”, “Sail Away”.

Rate: 8.

Label: https://hyperfollow.com/studiohagbyhemmet

About Carl Eric

Carl Eric is a Swedish Italo-Disco and Electro-Pop artist recording at Studio Hagbyhemmet in Nora, Sweden, a studio that also hosts Le Volt, Northern Loner, and The Girl & The Robot. He released his debut album, “The Garden,” on 4 May 2023.

Carl Eric followed with several singles, including “Games,” before releasing the five-track EP “Liquid Courage” on 2 November 2023 through Studio Hagbyhemmet.

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Genre/Influences: Italo-Disco, Electro-Pop.

Format: Digital.

Background/Info: “The Garden” is the debut full length of Swedish project Carl Eric. Some songs of the album have been previously released as singles and EP’s.

Content: The debut song is directly revealing the sound and influences of this artist who’s dealing with pure Italo-Disco. The production is touched by catchy and melodic structures carried by a danceable kick. The album features multiple cool, retro-tunes while I also noticed  a few more Electro-Pop driven parts reminding me of OMD. The vocals have something sweet and sexy which is totally fitting with the sound.

+ + + : The opening cut “Lady Of Dusk” is a real great Italo-Disco song which could have been originally composed in the 80s. It’s a true earworm. “Beatbox Of My Heart” is another song in a similar vein. Globally speaking this is an accomplished production which especially for a debut album is a great surprise and discovery. This is music to make people happy.

– – – : I regret the album only features 9 songs; some pieces being a bit too sweet but there’s no reason to complain here.

Conclusion: Carl Eric is a new and sexy project which will appeal for lovers of Italo-Disco. Let’s keep an eye on this artist.

Best songs: “Lady Of Dusk”, “Beatbox Of My Heart”, “Close The Light”, “Hey You”, Fashion Blitz”.

Rate: 8.

Label: https://hyperfollow.com/studiohagbyhemmet

About Carl Eric

Carl Eric is a Swedish Italo-Disco and Electro-Pop project based at Studio Hagbyhemmet, a recording studio in Nora, Sweden, that also hosts Le Volt, Northern Loner and The Girl & The Robot. Several songs on “The Garden” had already appeared as standalone singles and EPs before the album, which is Carl Eric’s debut full-length.

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I have been working for over 30 years with Side-line as the main reviewer. My taste is eclectic, uncoventional and I prefer to look for the pearls, even if the bands are completely unknown, thus staying loyal to the Side-Line philosophy of nurturing new talents.

www.side-line.com