PIXIE CARNATION /// FRESH POEMS [EP]

Whirling and Goading.

A promising chatter of layered instruments, Pixie Carnation’s EP, Fresh Poems, is an invigorating debut for a Swedish rock outfit droning Americana sounds. The last track, bearing the same title as the EP, smiles of possibility; Little Sister moves to a scuttle under a breath of furbished brass; Step Out of Line rolls the snares; and You Can Never Know floods a room with frontman Ola Palsson’s beefcake vocals. But the transcending stomp of When Did the Lights Go Out opens to flaunting scales inviting a flight to the city, an anthem to a hedonistic night. I would have liked to see Pixie Carnation trim it down for one song to see how the seven bandmates fare with less boisterous squalls. I imagine the unhurried croon of a ballad would offer equilibrium to a bustling EP, but even with this slight blunder or perhaps better coined as, omission, Fresh Poems is a laudable debut.

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Tags: Album review, Andreas Baur, Andreas Sjögestam, Elin Normann Bjarsell, Fresh Poems, Jacob Lind, KEXP, Lena Ostendorf, Ludwig Böss, Malmö, Music Blog, music review, Ola Pålsson, Pixie Carnation, Skåne län, The Musebox, Tobias Hellkvist, When Did the Lights Go Out