Seasonal Echoes＜限定盤＞

Throughout 2024, the Swedish duo Club 8 released a single a month, then gathered them up on an enchanting record titled A Year with Club 8. The idea was such a good one that they did the same thing in 2025. This time the resulting album was titled Seasonal Echoes and it finds them walking a similar path of warmly melancholic indie pop spiced with the occasional burst of noise pop and a wistful ballad or two. This is the kind of music Johan Angergard and Karolina Komstedt were seemingly born to make, and it should heat the hearts of pop lovers both vintage and newly minted to hear them still making music this sweetly real. As always, Angergard constructs perfect pop miniatures for Komstedts lilting voice; hes proven time and again that hes adept at any genre that is thrown in his path, but he sounds most at home making songs like these. Swaying soft pop like "Stay Together," quiet ballads ("Working on the Next Life"), rollicking noise pop gems ("Lazy"), and even shoegaze-influenced dream pop like "Let It All Fly"; they all come across like theyre second nature. Thats not to say anything sounds pro forma or lazy, everything sounds just right in an organic and reassuring way. There is obviously care and intention baked into every strum of echoing guitar or press of swooping keyboard key, and the tenderness of the vocals just cant be faked. Club 8 have been doing this kind of thing forever and it feels like they could keep doing it forever without any dip in quality or craft. Its not easy to do that and not only should indie pop fans treasure Seasonal Echoes because it sounds and feels like the warmth of the sun bottled up and downloaded, but they should give Angergard and Komstedt all the flowers they deserve for keeping the flame of indie pop, in its truest sense, alive and well. ~ Tim Sendra