Tobias Froberg
Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden | INDIE
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Built around organ, understated strings, and a pronounced sense of melancholy, the songs of "The big up" are bluer, and the emotions a bit sharper than 2008's "Turn heads". Love, it appears, still weighs heavily on Fröberg's mind. Although, from the paean to lost war love "Sandra", to guitar-driven "I wanna hurt like that", to spectacularly understated "When we go to war", pain and violence is never far behind. Even when his self-deprecating charm peaks though on track "I hope that I die before you", it's not without a keen sense that the end is always in sight. So consistent is his theme and care that, by album's end, even the refrain of final track "Baby baby baby" feels indebted with emotion far beyond its simple words. Also-ran no more, introspect suits Fröberg.
- Laura Studarus
March 2010 - Its a Trap
Discography
For Elizabeth Wherever you are (album)
Somewhere In the City (Album)
When the night turns cold (single)
Gods Highway (single)
Somewhere in the city (single)
Turn Heads (album)
Just behind a brickwall (single)
Slipping under the radar (single)
Blissful (single)
The Big Up (album)
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Bio
Tobias was a musician, but also journalist full time. He promised himself that if he met the Swedish Director, Ingemar Bergman and saw Neil Young in the same week, then he would quit. He did, he was asked to interview Mr. Bergman (the last he did) and saw Neil Young that same week. So that was that, so he became a musician full time.
His debut album, For Elizabeth wherever she is, received great reviews and he was then signed to Poptones by the legendary Alan Mcgee (Oasis etc). His second album, Somewhere In The City spread the word around the world, including the use in a major european ad of the first single. third album Turn Heads became a Pitchfork fave in the US and lots more uses of his music followed. New album, The Big Up is imminent, full of great songs and cool vibes, its a corker!
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