Handmade & folded risograph sleeves.
Latest four song 7" from Gothenburg's other supergroup on Gothenburg's other purveyor of subterranean sounds. Skfitande Enheter is, of course, the music of Elin and Julius from Loopsel/Monokultur, and Hugo and Love from a host of other familiar names such as Amateur Hour, Makthaverskan et al. As auspicious as those associations are, what makes Skiftande Enheter most notable is how they seem to speak more to Sweden's musical past then its current underground formations. Hugo also co-runs Appetite, the micro-label responsible for the Nice Try, Sunshine compilation that pieced together an alternative history of early 21st Century Swedish indiepop, and it's not a bad template for understanding the spirited and poppy ebullience of Öppna Landskap. Elin, too, has form in this area, having played with the excellent Litchenstein, Slumberland alumni from 2009 who offer a melodic precedent of sorts for what she's doing here (and a point of difference to the translucent dreamzones of Loopsel). Nonetheless, and somewhat inevitably, Skiftande Enheter are more than the sum of their parts, an exercise in mid 80s Creation styled psychedelia with an especially strident edge, in part because they sing in their native tongue but also because they play with such intuitive and unrelenting energy, spidery, jangling or swirling, but always at 100%. In a just world, you turn on the radio and the title track is playing. But we all know the world is never just.
