Sebastian

This is the debut solo-album from Nikola Sarcevic, vocalist of Sweden’s gold-status pop-punks Millencolin. Besides being an breathtakingly beautiful album, “Lock-Sport-Krock” is a revelation in many respects.

Can you take the youthful charm of Millencolin and put it in a costume of stripped-down acoustic sounds, elements of laid-back-rock and pure pop? Nikola can! Surprisingly, despite the obvious lack of distorted guitars and heavy drum impacts this record is extremely powerful – just in a different way. Even when Nikola is almost alone with a harmonica, an acoustic guitar and subtle organ sounds as on the title track, his lovelorn songs are emotionally and musically highly catchy and moving. Despite the fact that ‘love’ as the album’s dominant theme is ever-present, there is a lot of emotional and musical diversity. While carefree bar-rock tracks such as “Glue Girl” and “Mirror Man” are irresistible invitations to clap-along, the darker and utterly melancholic “New fool” or “Vila   Read Full Review >>