EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: The Amazing - Dragon
I am trying to avoid the obvious. Must…resist…argh…okay okay okay, I surrender: Hey everybody, check out this Amazing song! Ahhhh. Sorry, really I am, because this Swedish quartet deserves better than my cornball routine — in fact, the airy folk-rock band (which includes two Dungen dudes) goes a long way to reclaiming the true meaning of their name from the hipster hordes who hurl the word “amazing” at every faint breeze. The Amazing’s self-titled debut, out in a couple of weeks through the always-fresh Subliminal Sounds label, takes seasonally affecting melancholy and makes it something other than sad. Dig the sweet sweet sweet “Dragon,” its Nick Drake–style strum balanced against an achingly familiar guitar line — pure autumnal romance. Please forgive me my banalities, but this stuff is kind of amazing.
