Clear as day, this album’s first chorus boldly claims, “I want to see this through.” Now look: I’m not in the business of calling obscure Swedish pop singers liars, but it’s perfectly obvious by track eight, the earsplitting debacle “Recife,” that Johan Angergard has no such intentions - of seeing it through, that is.  In fact, this bad boy is more frontloaded than a Maytag washer. Thumping in parts, floating in others, the opening three-track blitz fires its first shot with “You Won,” a song that makes you wonder why other songs even exist. Labrador Records calls follow-up “Seconds Away” the noisiest pop single ever to come out of Sweden. Impressed or not (is this like being the best ice skater to come out of Kenya?), know that the tinny, Jesus And Mary Chain-ish feedback - true story - worked my dog into a head-shaking panic, like a shortstop who’s lost a pop fly in the sun. Or maybe it was the infectious chorus that did it.  Either way, that’s two canine-related sources vouching for this tune. Of course, “Always the Same,” a distortion-heavy, cranked-up version of the Velvet’s “Who Loves the Sun,” needs only captive ears to make its point, which is this: summer comes and goes, but reverb is forever. And for eight-plus minutes, this album sounds eternal - a timeless gem that invariably tails off oh so slightly until the how-did-I-get-buried-in-the-twelfth-hole riff-rocker “Touch.” At this point, one of any number of out-of-context lyrics will verify contentions about the come-down middle portion, but none better than this ziner from “You Won” - “I’m confused/ this is part two/ I had no plan for a sequel.” At least we’re being honest.

- Robert J. Hilson