Sincerely Yours
2007
Here Comes The Future
About This Album
Here Comes the Future is a succinct, engaging effort that establishes the Honeydrips -- essentially a one-man project centered around Mikael Carlsson -- as proud proponents of the indie pop tradition, in the most classicist sense; inheriting the lineage that originated in 1980s Britain and includes Orange Juice, Felt, the Field Mice, Saint Etienne, Belle & Sebastian, and, more recently, many of Carlsson's fellow Swedes and particularly fellow Gothenburgers like Jens Lekman and Sambassadeur. It may not introduce much in the way of innovation to separate him from his fellows and their forebears -- if the title is to be credited, the future will mostly consist of more of the same -- but that's not necessarily a shortcoming in a genre founded on fidelity to the timeless principles of melody, sweetness, and simple, sturdy, songcraft. Carlsson upholds those precepts diligently enough -- while still imbuing them with enough of his own personality -- that comparisons to the myriad obvious reference points in his music (in the indie pop pantheon and elsewhere) are practically irrelevant, if hardly invalid. Straightforwardly enough, he muses on the time-honored topics of love, loneliness, and existential ambivalence in candid, conversational, yet impressionistic verse, delivered in a slightly shaky baritone and swathed with synths, glockenspiels, and jangly guitars, drum machines, and tambourines, and far-off, barely perceptible background vocals.
Track List (try tracks 2,3,4,5,7 and 8)

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