CD - AUTO DROPOUTS - STILL WAITING FOR YOM KIPPUR

Jesper Eriksson is one of those deeply likeable Scandinavian songwriters, often lovelorn, but sure of himself and unfailingly eloquent. The Wannadies are a lazy comparison, but there is a resemblance. You could call ''Yom Kippur'' a power pop album if you had a pigeonhole that needed filling, but there''s vaulting musical ambition to reckon with here. ''Random'', fourth track after a trio of brisk janglers, is as lush as a really good George Harrison solo outing (imagine Jeff Lynne''s production just the right side of excessive), and Neil Finn - Leonard Cohen, even, at a pinch - would kill for the lyric, a gorgeous mixture of the cosmic and domestic. Bacharach-ish trumpet adorns another slowie, ''It''s Over''. Eriksson can do this sort of thing just as well as the poppier stuff. Cracking tunes, skilful word-pictures and musical adeptness then, and while the Auto Dropouts are more a vehicle for Eriksson''s songwriting than a band proper, ''Yom Kippur'' hangs together like a band record.

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Artist AUTO DROPOUTS 1 Release date2007-06-27 AvailabilityIn stock Delivery1 - 3 days Item no75673 Product groupCD/DVD MediaCD Record labelFold 4 2 GenreAlternative Swedish artists 942 ConditionNew, unplayed

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