Red Sleeping Beauty - Diary

Matinee
(matcd094: 195269331924)

$12.00

Release date: November 15, 2024

1. Caroline (I Found Love)

2. This Heart's Now Yours

3. The Sound Of Summer

4. New York, New Me

5. Summer House

6. Could Have Been Me

7. Head Up High

8. Is This Love?

9. Cruising Slowly

10. I'm Here Tonight

CD bonus tracks:

11. Free Cake For Every Creature

12. If I Showed You My Heart

13. Canciones De Verano

14. Cruising Slowly (Emol's Guitar Rework)

In their 35th (!) year, Stockholm indiepop legends Red Sleeping Beauty decided to gently force creativity by releasing one song a month.

Their fifth album ‘Diary’ is based on ten of those and might be their strongest set of pop songs yet. Spanning from jangly indiepop numbers (Is This Love?, The Sound Of Summer, I’m Here Tonight) reminiscent of the band’s acclaimed ’90s singles through somber mid-tempo tracks (Summer House, This Heart’s Now Yours, Cruising Slowly, Head Up High), to straight-up dance floor fillers (New York New Me, Caroline (I Found Love), Could Have Been Me), ‘Diary’ is eclectic yet strangely coherent, thanks to the band’s knack for timeless melodies.

Now down to a duo, ‘Diary’ is enriched by inspired guest appearances from Mary Wyer (Even As We Speak), Julia Lannerheim (Acid House Kings), Jane Wildson (Papa Topo), and Emol.

“We have always been about the songs, and this approach made us focus on just that. The album just happened,” says vocalist Niklas Angergård. “Not ‘making an album’ allowed us to be freer in form and do exactly what we felt like doing that month,” adds keyboardist Mikael Matsson.

The CD version includes four bonus tracks: the final two songs from the one song a month series (Free Cake For Every Creature, If I Showed You My Heart), a Spanish version of The Sound of Summer (Canciones de Verano), and a tripped out rework of Cruising Slowly.