1. I’ll Meet You There (full mp3)
2. Nothing To Keep You
3. Make It To The End
4. Rest Your Eyes On Mine (full mp3)
5. I Met A Girl With Butterfly Wings
6. Csanca
7. Storyteller
8. Debut
ST brings his debut LP to Music Related. Robust & sharp beats, supported by warm and degraded synth tones & melodies. The feel of long winters, and the longer nights in Sweden fill the album. Recalling both, nights in love, and the days spent alone. “People I Barely Know” is almost a literal view of the creation of this album. Everyone who work on this album, from ST, the vocalist, label, visual artist. have never actually met. Everyone is someplace else, and contributed from their own separate worlds. Brought together by STs music, and this album. STs album recalls fellow Sweden native’s “Radio Dept.”, but with “I Am Robot And Proud” synth style production. Will surely will appeal to any fan of Styrofoam and current Morr Music output. “People I Barely Know” is a warm cup of tea in the surrounding blizzard of out lives.
rundgangmedia completed a video for st’s song “debut” from “people i barely know“.
or download a higer res version here. .wmv format.
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ST is Stefan Ternemar from Sweden, not another Music Related artist, Japan’s Shugo Tokumaru. The label compares his album People I Barely Know to Styrofoam, but I hear a lot more going on. Despite being an album of collaborations (re-read the title), I have to say that People really comes across as a varied and consistently good album of songs, with varying elements of Morr Music-type poptronica, well-wrought indie pop and textural IDM. Throughout the record, I hear the dreamy, decaying chimes and slow melancholy of Casino Vs. Japan or B. Fleischmann, plus the take-you-away lift of Band of Horses(!) all wrapped together with that modern day, Swedish indie pop sensibility. (Check out the album opener, “I’ll Meet You There.”) “Make It to the End” has a slight Postal Service-like urgency to it but, similar to the rest of People, as soon as an influence is recognized, something happens in the song that offsets it and moves the track in another direction. The fifth song has a Go Hawaii-like narrated vocal to it with a blissful Boards of Canada-esque ambience that swirls in by the third minute of the track. It’s strange to hear an album that has so much going for it at once: The dude not only can write a song and sing it well, but he’s also got great production and sequencing skills, not to mention a talent for finding good collaborators. Music Related is really showing itself to be a music lover’s record label. Their releases are just as good as they are simultaneously related and unique from each other, and every release seems like another recommendation from a good friend’s solid music collection. [SM]
