No Acid In This House

The Acid House Kings are a perfect example of the style of pop music coming from Sweden right now. Everything I've heard from the Swedes lately have been reminiscent of some indie bands in the U.S. mixed with a new pop feel that seems to work somehow.


Mondays are like Tuesdays and Tuesdays are like Wednesdays is very lazy, light and breezy I see lots of bright colored laundry blowing in the wind as a picnic is being set up throughout the majority of this album. It is almost a throwback to sixties innocence before acid use exploded heavily on the scene. This Love Is All We Need is a quiet gem that can at times sound like Frente mixed with Kings of Convenience.


Their latest album, Sing Along With The Acid House Kings, is the graduation and culmination of what they've been doing all along. The melodies are smoothed clean and the progression of each individual song seems like it does exactly what it should do next. Near the end of Sing Along the Nick Drake feel of Will You Love Me In The Morning is placed well between Sleeping and A Long Term Plan. Their titles are just part of the story they tell throughout this cutesy pop diamond. Listen to it as you walk down the sunny street and I guarantee a head bop or two.


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