Meadowland(2)

November 30th sees the European release of the debut album Harbours by singer/songwriters Meadowland. Harbours is produced and written by guitarists Josef Bernberg and Robin Tingl?f. Meadowland features Christopher Anderzon on bass and Henrik St?hlberg on percussion. Recently featured on Swedish television’s channel 4 breakfast-show, Meadowland have consolidated their previous live performance experience into an intimate stage presence that bears witness to both their technical finesse and lyrical sensitivity. Harbours endeavours to bring that sensitivity to the studio, providing the listener with a full-length album experience reminiscent of the previous singles, but comprising entirely new material, and exhibiting more coherent production. Josef Bernberg and Robin Tingl?f started playing rock music together in their teens. Growing older they experienced the onset of creative asphyxiation as the responsibilities of adulthood began taking their toll. Life had become mundane and a little bit too realistic. Music had lost its fascination, and the bands they were involved in tended to split up. After a dry spell, they began to play together again, tentatively, in an attempt to recapture some of that earlier fascination for music. This led them to explore a different texture of sound, that turned out to be somewhat therapeutic. Their current collaboration began seven years ago as an informal song-writing workshop of sorts, void of expectations or demands. After some time they realised that they had unwittingly started a band. They discovered Meadowland. With no previous interest in, or experience of the acoustic genres, they both set out on a new journey of musical experimentation. It is this wanderlust and curiosity that gives the band its unique, soft, spacial quality, inviting listeners to inhabit nostalgic moodscapes. Meadowland is a band sustained by friendship, dreams and a vested trust in following the music wherever it might lead.