Yesterday I received an album I have been waiting in excitement for. – I haven’t waited that long, I admit that, – but I have definitely waited since the second I heard the first few tones of Tvärvägen‘s astonishing debut single "September" this autumn. The album I’m talking about is of course the Swedish one-man project Tvärvägen’s debut album, "Sångar från Tvärvägen" ("Songs from Tvärvägen"), and it is out now on the small Swedish label Knoppar.

The album is quite short, – 10 songs with a total of only 27 minutes, but it is 27 delicious minutes. This is very delicate and tender music, – small compositions on toy-pianos, peculiar strings and out of tune instruments, short elements of radio transmissions, beautiful heart warming melodies, and last but not at all least: Henrik Öhberg’s warm vocals on top. It all sounds quite spontaneous and improvised, in a good way. The songs are lo-fi in style, but without being lo-fi in the sound quality, if it is possible to be understood by saying it like that…

Herr Öhberg, his neighbours on Tvärvägen and the good people at Knoppar can be immensely proud of this debut!

If you want to hear more from Tvärvägen, you can go to Knoppar’s web-shop and download the full album in high quality for only 5.99£.

Here is the wonderful single "September":