New Fredrik Video - "Vinterbarn" (Stereogum Premiere)

Anytime we've mentioned Swedish BTW Fredrik the word "wintry"'s been affixed, so, 'tis the season. Fully self-aware, the band's releasing a video for "Vinterbarn," from their forthcoming sophomore full-length Trilogi. It's a chilly bit of developmental psychology via gusty Swedish baroque pop: in their mother tongue, vinterbarn means people born in the months of October to February (vinter means winter, barn means children). "They usually develop clashing personalities in child groups due to age difference," we're told, and the lyric holds that up: "the harder the snow the harder they grow," a somewhat spooky, seasonally appropriate twist on Jimmy Cliff, set in a video with bleak stop-motion and a little surreality.

Fredrik - "Vinterbarn" (MP3)

is out 1/26 via The Kora. Also try "Locked In The Basement."

Posted at 12:54 PM by amrit in MP3, Video
Tags: Fredrik

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YAY for new Fredrik! Wintry indeed, love the song and the visuals... time for some hot cocoa.

Posted by: reverie at 12/11/09 1:19 PM  | Reply
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this album should be high up on the must get list for 2010.

Posted by: frosty at 12/11/09 2:56 PM  | Reply
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Most underrated act of 2008 by far.

Posted by: scott at 12/12/09 12:46 PM  | Reply
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This made my day.

Posted by: wamuflu at 12/12/09 10:22 PM  | Reply
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