There is something so seductive about English spoken and sung by Swedes. It is difficult to pin down exactly what it is except to say that there is often a hard boiled sweetness; a subtly shifting cadence that knowingly winks; the glint of northern lights in bright blue eyes. I am sure that linguists could explain it all, but in so doing I am sure too they would destroy the magic in the same way musicologists strip the mystery from music.
So listening to Alpaca Sports I am obviously seduced. I am reminded of those lost days of delirium when I first heard the likes of Tough Alliance and Montt Mardie. Fibi Frap and Hello Saferide. Shade Tree, Damn The Lion and Boat Club. I could go on for hours.
Like those last three, Alpaca Sports hail from Gothenburg. If I were still running my playful little record label I would be desperate to release a collectable hand stamped 3” CD to make it four for four. Thankfully the Luxxury label seem to think the same as me and will be sneaking two tracks out on a 7” imminently. It has made me scurry back and catch up with their catalogue (which includes the aforementioned Boat Club) where I spot a My Darling YOU! 10” from last year which passed me by and which I must pick up.
Meanwhile, if you do not care for vinyl clogging up your bedroom you can snag both sides of the Alpaca Sports single from their Soundcloud presence right now. And frankly you’d be crazy not to.
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