Despite their name, Swedish Light In Your Life are far from a chipper group of young men. Formerly known as Sleazy Romance, Light In Your Life makes brooding indie pop that can be just as depressing as it is comforting. Either way, there’s no denying the beauty of this album. Perhaps being Swedish myself makes me prone to like this kind of Scandinavian sadness. According to the band their music is the result of:

“…too many beers in the company of good friends, lonely nights in front of crappy television, the will to feel like you’re in a movie, the will to feel something real for once, girlfriends that just want to be friends, the joy of creating the best mixtape in the world and a thousand other things that finally made us get our shit together and record an album.”

I honestly don’t think I can describe the album any better than that myself, so I’ll just round things off by underlining the best tracks: “We Could Be There”, “Geldof”, “Song About Love”, “Smile That Smile”, and “Christian”.

The self-titled debut by Light In Your Life will be out June 19.

~ “Geldof”, “Smile That Smile” ~