Existensminimum - Last Night My Head Tried To Explode And I Wrote Everything Down [novoton -2006]

Today we got a nice little piece of music sent to us wrapped up in a lovely artwork. It was the debut album from Existensminimum. Here you get offered a trip into rhythmic and krauty excursion of electro-pop territories you had almost forgotten existed. It displays a dark, dirty sound that is brutally melancholic and harsh at the same time.

For Magnus Henriksson, who also plays the drums and percussion for Moneybrother, cacophony isn’t anything bad; it’s the only way to do music. “Last Night My Head Tried to Explode and I Wrote Everything Down” can be put under the same category as Fireside’s “Elite” from 2000 since it got the same approach and the feeling that Existensminimum want to be, and do something else than your regular Swedish indiepop shit. And that feeling is overwhelming.

What I really love and want to give Magnus credit for is the Kraut-rock songs that displays restlessness and frustration that is hard to not get run over by and reminds me of a more brutal and angry Neu!

These 10 songs are a real adventure for the ears and soul for those who dare to look beyond the frame of the standard pop and rock music of today. Are you one of them you will be largely rewarded.

As some one else said; I hope Magnus Henriksson quit playing with Moneybrother and focus on Existensminimum.

Preview the complete album here!