The fifth album from this band from Sweden.
The band was an eight pieces big band with a lineup of drums, percussion, bass, guitars, flutes, woodwinds and vocals.
This band was in fact a theater company and they were a part of the Swedish progg movement. The xtra G here means this was on the marxist-leninist-stalinist end of the political spectrum in Sweden/Scandinavia. Some people tends to confuse the progg movement with the prog movement. Those two movements has almost nothing in common, music wise and in most other cases.
The progg movement based their music on the leftist lyrics. I am Norwegian and therefore understand the Swedish lyrics here. The lyrics here are pretty good, although based on the life in the 1970s.
But back to the music....
This album is clocking in at thirty-five minutes.
The music is mainly pub rock with some strong punk rock and power pop influences. There are also some faint prog rock influences here.
The vocals is pretty good. There are both male and female vocals here where the female vocals are the best vocals.
The music is pretty decent to decent throughout. There is one pretty good ballad at the end of the album.
This is therefore a decent album. It does not tempt me to get any more of their albums.
2 points
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