This year’s award for the Longest Album Title goes to Sweden’s Sara Berg for When I Was A Young Child I Used To Feel Pleasure From Playing With Others. Turgid or what?
Nope, Berg certainly wont be lighting up the 2008 Mercury Prize hotline. And the cover art depicting her as Joan of Arc - pensively gazing off into some fantastical future where she alone heralds musical sovereignty - is rather ropey too. Yet, listen closely and there are some glacier-pure moments on this album.
In ‘Young Child’ Berg’s dark electropop is reminiscent of fellow Scandanavians, The Knife. Whilst the frenetic synth-beats of ‘Babies & Beautiful Things’ almost smells of ‘Blue Monday’, only to be skewed by Berg’s Dusty Springfield warble.
Like Ellen Allien, only not as German. And not as good.
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