Malmö’s Alice Boman recorded a few tracks at home, ideas that were going through her head, potential songs that maybe she could work on and develop. The result was Skisser, a collection of five songs, three of which remain unnamed.
Skisser (that’s Swedish for ‘Sketches) is to be released by Adrian Recordings on the 22nd May. These are pop songs that use slightly fuzzy guitars and gentle piano alongside crystal clear vocals to produce something that sounds, for lack of a better word (and in an entirely positive sense), old fashioned.
The track below, ‘Waiting’, is the leading track and gives you a good idea of what Alice is aiming for. The label releasing the EP describe it as ‘Billie Holiday for the 2010s, without the jazz’. I’d say it’s Lana Del Rey’s ‘Video Games’ without the production and hype. It’s a gentle and fragile and personal, yet also confident and assured. For a home recording, this is exceptionally well done. In an alternate reality this is the summer radio hit.
A second EP is in the pipeline, this time in a studio with members of labelmates This Is Head providing backup. Whether Boman would prefer to elaborate on these ‘sketches’ in her future work remains to be seen. Going on the results here, I find myself hoping not.