Swedish vocals
International relevance: **
A split album with three one-syllable
bands on the Avanti imprint, recorded during two April nights in 1979 at the Fasching jazz club in Stockholm, and produced by Mikael Katzeff
(Elektriska Linden and others). All three bands are somewhere between
progg and punk, occasionally a bit similar to Huddinge band Hela Huset Skakar. Ruff is the tightest of the three and also the best
with some nice sax work by singer Malte Sjöstrand on for instance
”Barnen leker doktor”. Ruff's four tracks would have made for a pretty fine EP.
Fukt is rocking away like a bluesier
version of Nationalteatern. ”Psykiska batonger” has a drive that
is hard to resist. Their remaining tracks are in a similar vein and are OK enough.
Suck is the band closest to punk here,
partly due to Elsa Beskow's grating vocals with an incredibly
annoying vibrato. Even without her, the songs wouldn't be very good.
”Ann-Sofie” has lyrics by Roger Fjellström, writer, graphic
artist and translator of several French modernist authors including
Henri Michaux, Antonin Artaud and René Char.