IFLTS: 'I Am John,' Loney, Dear

Posted on Feb 15th 2007 3:52PM by Kelly Reeves
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'I Am John,' Loney, Dear
From 2007's 'Loney Noir'

The blogeratti have been buzzing about Loney, Dear -- a.k.a. Sweden's Emil Svanängen -- for a few months so I surrendered to the incessant nagging from my RSS reader and gave 'I Am John' a spin. OMG. The track begins so unassumingly with simple acoustic guitar and vocals. But then Emil kicks it up a notch with some na na nas, cute quiet drums, a xylophone of some sort, and wait for it . . . is that a clarinet? I'm sold. By the time the song hits 2:10, I'm busting out the jazz hands and my signature dance moves. With its subtle, constant build-up, I just can't sit still and my skin starts crawling in a good way. 'I Am John' is pure happiness packaged perfectly in three minutes and thirty three seconds.

Hear the song after the jump.

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