Club 8 - Strangely Beautiful + 5 bonus tracks

Reissue. Labrador is proud to present the fourth of four CD album re-issues by one of Sweden’s most influential indie pop bands. Club 8s fifth album ”Strangely beautiful” is released with original artwork and nothing less than five (5) bonus tracks. ”Strangely beautiful” was the last of three albums in Club 8’s productive peak between 2001 and 2003. Within a time frame of less than two years the band managed to release three full-length albums and two Eps without ever losing on quality. Quite the opposite, ”Strangely beautiful” was by many considered their best album to date. ”Strangely Beautiful is Club 8's best and most varied record to date…on this album, the band's trademark blend of soft indie pop guitars, perky dance beats, melancholy synthesizers, and sweet and innocent vocals remains intact, but Johan Angergard, the chief architect of Club 8's sound, seems to have spent some effort trying to expand their sound a little. The work pays off handsomely and the album sounds full of life and energy.” ALL MUSIC Their previous album ”Spring came, rain fell” had been a very diverse history ranging from electronica and dub to acoustic pop. Therefor it came natural for Club 8 to move in the opposite direction on their next album and make a more homogeneous album. ”Strangely beautiful” mostly revolved around guitar based and melancholic pop music. But there was, as always, tracks that stood out as completely different from the rest. And in typical Club 8 manner this track, ”Saturday night engine”, was chosen to be the single. This noisy and Northern Soul-inspired track was a clear forerunner to The Legends ”Up against the Legends”. But that’s another story.

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