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blood panic
Blood Panic When Swedish punkgroup Monster disbanded in 2000 Anders Wendin knew that he needed to move on with his music in a different direction. He renamed himself Moneybrother and took all his favorite artists’ trademarks and tried to mend them together into one big force of energy. Bob Marley, Al Green, Bruce Springsteen and the Clash are some of the most prominent influences heard on his solo debut release. Amazingly enough, he does not only manage to show his love for those artists, but also capture and deliver the charisma that only few possess. You can mimic and try to copy every move another artists make but never quite sound as good as their role models. Moneybrother does sound authentic. The lyrics seems honest and the artists he borrows ideas from are perhaps easier to combine into something own than first expected. The great rhythm section rolls with ease, the horns gives the music a soulful touch and Moneybrother’s own vocal performance on top of it is so convincing and direct that it is hard to be left without any kind of emotional movement. The single “It’s Been Hurting All The Way With You Johanna” is certainly one of the highlights in this collection of songs that holds an incredibly high standard throughout. It builds up slowly, moves into something more rousing and towards the end it explodes in one big bolt of energy. “Don’t Call The police”, “Positive Vibrations” features some impressive falsetto vocals that returns here and there through out the album, but also some fine, catchy melodies bound to hang on to you. When the strength of the melodies is questionable, Moneybrother simply run you over with pure, fresh, raw energy instead. “Can’t Stop” and “Reconsider Me” are good examples of such adrenaline rushes. When the closing, and melodic strong, “Stormy Weather” fades out, it is difficult to do anything else but to press play and enjoy one of the best albums of 2003 once again.
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