This band (the name is a reference to Greek myth) is primarily Swedish singer/songwriter/lead guitarist Erik Mattiasson. Mattiasson works out his own personal agonies. He had a rough childhood in Kiruna, a small city in Sweden’s northernmost boonies. He suffers from schizophrenia. The title cut, with its eerie, whispered lyrics about holes in his head, explores this malady from an insider’s view. The musicianship is fine, my only qualm is that all the songs have the same tone, so perhaps they are more effective when heard one at a time. There’s a new album out, Bring the Lions In, which I haven’t been able to get a hold of. As with most Swedish rock, it’s sung in English. Doesn’t anybody record songs in Swedish? It’s nice to be accessible to the world market, but surely there’s something lost when an international language so thoroughly dominates a country’s music scene.
Melpo Mene’s “Holes”
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