![]() How have you been managing the pandemic and the resulting mental strain many of us have experienced? At the same time, it’s easier for me to write in English basically because it does make me feel less vulnerable as when I write in Swedish. My challenge is, of course, that English is not my first language, and at times, I feel that it limits me. I write a lot of songs and mostly I come up with an idea and try to stick with it. Do you continuously uncover new layers to your own music? ![]() Interestingly, such a song feels urgent and timely for what’s been going on in the world. We must dare to face what is a little different then we would have a much more open and humane society. If someone does not follow the norm, some people think they’re weird. In our society, there are norms about what is considered right and wrong. “Why am I isolated from the world outside?” you cry on “See Me Now.” What are you searching for on this song? Yes, it must be something in the water, as it seems to be very common among songwriters here in the north of Sweden. It is one of the few songs that I have rewritten and mixed up with ideas that were initially intended for other songs.ĭo you find yourself naturally writing about being emotionally tortured? “Driving All Night” carries a very sharp heaviness to it, but with a shimmering melody and production style. I already have far too many songs to be able to do all the work by myself. The biggest challenge for me is finding time to mix and produce my songs. I got a very good response and that encourages me to continue to write my own music. When I started to perform, it was only covers, and as I learned more, I started to write my own songs and added one or two to the setlists. What’s been your journey in finding your voice and breaking through in the industry? So, maybe I will try to find a number of songs that would benefit from being released together,” he says.īelow, Öberg discusses his songwriting journey, emotional heft, and infuences. “I’ve written so many songs, more than I will be able to record, and new ones keep popping out all the time. With the year finally bowing out, he eyes a potential body of work, if he can stop writing songs that is. “But a simpler answer could be that it is easier for me to write melancholic songs ⏤ and the major theme for the song is caution.”Įlsewhere in his catalog to-date, Öberg zig-zags from the pulsating starbursts of “There’s No Time” to jazzy echos embedded in “Anywhere the Sun Goes” ⏤ and he never seems to lose his way. “Maybe it has something to do with living and the tradition of melancholic music that is common,” he muses on the song’s emotionally liquid core. Having grown up in northern Sweden, and as is tradition, the young musician finds himself entranced by and beholden to a particular style of songwriting. “Neon Signs” crumbles beneath his soulful confessions, yet it’s star-bound approach feels destined for the heavens. “It really requires focus and persistence to avoid being distracted by things happening in real life and online.” But at the same time, I think it’s hard to get noticed among all the new music,” Öberg expresses to B-Sides & Badlands over email. “It’s easier than ever to make music and make it available for others to listen to. ![]() Out of Sweden, the bright newcomer wields iron-forged lyrics like his life depends on it ⏤ and it surely does. Guitars swiftly swarm around his voice, of thick, reedy timbre and jagged edges, and the listner is soon swept away on an unexpected jet stream. “I’m trying so hard to find my way / But I’m so easily led astray,” he laments through piano twinkles on “Neon Signs,” an exemplary showcase of great promise. There is a sweetness to the way William J.
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