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01. JOSEFIN OHRN + THE LIBERATION - The State (I'm In)
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02. JOSEFIN OHRN + THE LIBERATION - Sister Green Eyes
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03. JOSEFIN OHRN + THE LIBERATION - In Madrid
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04. JOSEFIN OHRN + THE LIBERATION - Rainbow Lollipop
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05. JOSEFIN OHRN + THE LIBERATION - Endless Ocean
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06. JOSEFIN OHRN + THE LIBERATION - Looking For You
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07. JOSEFIN OHRN + THE LIBERATION - Rushing Through My Mind
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08. JOSEFIN OHRN + THE LIBERATION - Circular Motion
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09. JOSEFIN OHRN + THE LIBERATION - Where I'm Going
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10. JOSEFIN OHRN + THE LIBERATION - Imagine You
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ARTIST
OHRN + THE LIBERATION, JOSEFIN
TITLE
Mirage
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
ROCKET RECORDINGS
CATALOG #
LAUNCH 096LP
LAUNCH 096LP
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
1/6/2017
LP version.
Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation
took little time to make their mark on the wider world, brandishing a radiant sound that stands effortlessly apart from the increasingly staid and often paradoxically predictable world of modern psychedelia. Having already been nominated for a Swedish Grammy with their debut EP,
Diamond Waves
, their full-length 2015 debut on Rocket Recordings,
Horse Dance
(LAUNCH 086CD/LP), marked out a territory in which beguiling repetition could sashay with sweet pop suss, melodic flourishes with experimental intensity. Yet clearly this was only the beginning of a journey of discovery, and few would have guessed how the band's sound would quickly evolve into still more enchanting and enlightening strains. Their second effort
Mirage
, sees the band sculpting sprawling, hypnotic jams into elegant nocturnal serenades with such serendipity that their actual creation remains a little hazy even to themselves. "We agree on not remembering very much about how these tracks came about, that all of them were written on the road and that most of them came fully formed" note the band. "Most were really long to begin with, but we found it relieving to break away a bit from the mandatory psych jams a little bit. We also just realized that none of them were written in daylight, which might be why memory is so elusive." Indeed, this hypnagogic approach seems to fit well with the primary inspiration for the five-piece, which centered on "the state where dreams, visions and the present are entwined" - the domain of surrealists and mystics. True to form,
Mirage
sees the band taking a chic tradition of avant-pop that extends all the way from
Serge Gainsbourg
and
Françoise Hardy
to
Broadcast
and
Saint Etienne
, and warping it mercilessly to their own darker ends. Whilst the brooding yet sultry "Sister Green Eyes" is no less than a sharp slice of velveteen motorik-pop and "Looking For You" reinvents three-chord garage-rock attack with mighty finesse, The Liberation are just as comfortable dealing out the heavy-lidded and electronically-driven "In Madrid" or the dive in the hallucinatory deep end of "Circular Motion", on which they're aided and abetted by
Lay Llamas
's
Nicola Guinta
. "
Horse Dance
was very much about conjuring the strength needed to cut ties" the band elucidates. "
Mirage
may be about having left but having no clue what's next - the power in being completely lost and thriving on it."
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