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Let Me Introduce You to My Friends [Import]

~ I'm from Barcelona (Artist)
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Debut album from this 29 member Swedish band (who obviously aren't from Barcelona!) led by principal songwriter/singer Emanuel Lundgren. Grand Indie Pop with multi-part harmonies, strings, horns, banjo, accordion and kazoos. Features the hit single 'We're From Barcelona' plus 'Chicken Pox' and 'Rec & Play'. Prepare to be stunned. EMI. 2006.

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2006 Debut Album from the Swedish Band Named after Fawlty Towers' Manuel (He's from Barcelona, Si?) and Founded by Emanuel Lundgren. I'm from Barcelona Are 29 Friends Whose Gathering is Fuelled by the Energy that Only a Sunny Summer Holiday Can Bring, Creating an Album of Explosively Happy Pop Songs. Emanuel's Flat Transformed Into a Factory Where Band Members Embraced a Diy Ethic, Coming and Going Loaded with Banjos, Accordions and Kazoos and Eventually Releasing a Diy EP and this Full Length Statement.

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4.0 out of 5 stars I am from Barcelona!, Mar 12 2007
By E. A Solinas "ea_solinas" (MD USA) - See all my reviews
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Fawlty Towers fans are going to recognize the name of I'm From Barcelona -- that's what the waiter Manuel always says to explain odd stuff: "I am from Barcelona!"

But their debut album "Let Me Introduce My Friends" is nothing like Spanish music. Instead, this lovable, enormous Swedish band sounds sort of like a cross between Architecture in Helsinki and the Polyphonic Spree -- sunny, twinkly, shimmery pop music.

It opens with Emanuel Lundgren drawling, "Daaaaaaamn!/Oversleeping again/Daaaaaaaaamn!/I can't believe I did it once again." He then describes what he'll have to do to "make it on time." It's a mundane topic for a pop song, but it's framed with a sparkling pop tune full of catchy guitar, twinkly xylophone and the occasional bell chime.

The songs that follow are in the same mold -- the lyrics are about confusion, chicken pox, broken hearts, stamp collecting, and finding a spot for the perfect treehouse. And the songs wrapped in them are just as charming: folky pop, driving guitars, twee little sugarpuffs, shimmery bell-augmented pop, and the sprawling orchestral sound of "Olakola."

"Let Me Introduce My Friends" is basically pop for people who like bands with a slightly sugary sound, but a pleasant melody as well. "Let Me Introduce My Friends" is basically all sunshine, spring grass and childlike fun -- very charming.

You can't really single out any band members, since there are almost thirty of them, but the instrumentation is nicely polished and solidly played. The songs are wrapped in unstoppable swirling riffs, banjo, solid percussion, sweeps of wobbly and/or sputtering synth, rattling bells and what sounds like a xylophone.

Lundgren has a nice smooth voice, although at times he sounds a bit like he's singing a nursery rhyme. The lyrics are a bit short and simplistic, but they do admittedly sum up the childlike enthusiasm of the music ("You know I can't believe I'm telling everyone that I know/That every stamp in my collection is a place we could go!").

"Let Me Introduce My Friends" has rather simple songwriting, but deliciously twee pop and some solid, catchy tunes. Nice, unpretentious fun.
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