Later this year the Swedish New Wave Barber Shop Rock trio gone quartet Forest & Crispian will release their third full length album titled ‘Morgenlands’, following up on their great 2006 debut ‘Modern Sensation’ and ditto second ‘Modest Sensation’ (2008/2009), and building up to that they released this seven track EP titled ‘The Saint’ in late January.

Who are they?
Brothers Adam (drums, vocal) and Karl-Johan Hjertström (bass, vocal), Tomas Borgström (guitar, keys, vocal) and Susannah Carlsson (keys, vocal) plus string quartet Vindla and Edda Magnason, who lends her delicate vocal to ‘Älska Mej Bill’.

How’s the EP?
Produced by Per Sunding (Bob Hund, The Cardigans etc) ‘The Saint’ is as entertaining, serious, eccentric and catchy as you’d expect a Forest & Crispian release to be. ‘Älska Mej Bill’ could be classic 1950s Swedish folk, while ‘Let The Best Band Win’ (first single off ‘Morgenlands’) is debut era F&C, strings adding new nuances to their New Wave Barber Shop Rock, ‘The Golden Ship’ is the ‘Peter Gunn Theme’ for a 1960s French film noir, and ‘This Ain’t A Song For People Wanting To Have Fun’ a symphonic swing-pop and cabaret combo of both. It’s serious fun, truly unique and an EP setting the bar quite high for the forthcoming album.

Check them out if you’d like:
To hear a band that manage to juxtapose the playfully pleasant to the atrocities of the world (and sour love) in a splendidly charming mix of the immediate and the challenging without dropping the ball in excessive artsy ambition.

More Forest & Crispian:
On MySpace
On Facebook
On www

Genre: Rock/Pop/Cabaret
Who: Forest & Crispian
Album: The Saint
Label: Slow Shark Records/VME
Year: 2011
Country: Sweden
Language: English/Swedish
DOWNLOAD VIA

Recommended tracks:
This Ain’t A Song For People Wanting To Have Fun – Let The Best Band Win – Älska Mej Bill