Review: Everyone will recognize the new Jakob Hellman



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In an interview of more than twenty years, Jakob Hellman said that he only made one record because he is so busy with other things. For example, watching television and looking for work. That was a good thing, I think. Sometimes there seems to be an unlimited set of requirements in culture for people who are gifted with creative talent. As if the mere existence of ability forces constant surrender. But the vast majority of people are just people. A talent doesn’t change the fact that life is primarily about those things. You watch TV. Looking for a job.

Enough for the fans Vuollerim’s missing pop star had good intentions when every year since “… And the Big Sea” was released in 1989 they asked for new music. But the cult built around Jakob Hellman has also locked him in a position from which he has never been able to advance. In the same interview he said about television, in Musikbyrån 1999, he plays some new songs. The line of text “I have to get dressed, even though it’s night already” crosses his lips, and the fact that he begins one of the two tracks he posts today, two decades later, says something about how slow the process has been. Now play music. But speaking at the same time with a voice from another time.

The ballad “I can’t say hi then” is most faithful. Everyone will recognize the creative phrasing, the evident fragility, the storyteller who stands a bit next to his own event and looks inward. “When I Go In Somewhere and Feel Outside” is more orchestrated, with its distorted strings and guitars frankly striking for being Hellman. Like the first, it is also a bit unconventional. Anyone who has seen any of his concerts in recent years knows that the artistic and punk nerve that he felt in him as a young man has grown into something more courageous. One hope for the album that comes after the New Year is that he dares to take more turns. In that case, “Finally Gone” has at least a chance to live up to the highest expectations in Swedish pop history.

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