NW Noise Reviews
El Perro Del Mar - From The Valley To The Stars
MP3 of El Perro Del Mar's Somebody's Baby
Sarah Assbring, a Swedish pop artist. She is the sole member of El Perro Del Mar, a band name that came to her after a depressing time in Spain through a stray dog that consoled and bonded with her while seated on a beach. Her songwriting is her expression of her feelings, and with much effort she wrote, played and recorded her own music with the label Hybris releasing a three-song EP of her work in early 2004. After respectable sales of the EP and successful tours of Sweden, the EP was reworked and released in England and Europe in 2006.
El Perro Del Mar’s next album was released in late-2006, self-titled and released by The Control Group in the US, UK, Australia and New Zealand. After a successful tour of the US in 2007 joined by additional bandmates and after jettisoning Hybris for the label Licking Fingers, work on their second album begun: From the Valley to the Stars.
From the Valley to the Stars is beautiful music. The album is like a great typeface, it’s what’s not there that makes the form, fit; makes the creation expressive. The album features short tracks, but there’s a lot to be discovered here. I’m particularly taken with the melodies, the drive of emotion present in the songs. I can explain it by saying it’s like Sigur Ros but with comprehensible lyrics, but the comparison will stop there; El Perro Del Mar is distinctly Swedish: artistic, romantic, egalitarian, and simple but innovative. We really like From the Valley to the Stars and we’ll be paying attention to her US tour this Spring.
El Perro Del Mar will be playing the Doug Fir on May 16 and we recommend you go that evening to listen to this very talented Swedish artist. From the Valley to the Stars was released on April 22nd and is available immediately on iTunes.
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