Whenever Mattias Olsson does something very challenging at
Roth Handle Studios whether it is producing or performing with various bands
including Anglagard, In These Murky Waters, Weserbergland, Pixie Ninja, or
Molesome to name a few, you may never know what to expect inside his studio in
Stockholm, Sweden. Now for me, Molesome was one of those challenges I had
discovered two years ago.
Their music took me a while whether I was going to accept it
or not with their 2018 release, Dial back
in May of that year on my blog site, Music from the Other Side of the Room. And
as I’ve mentioned earlier in my review, Dial
was a very interesting release that year. Now in 2020, Mattias has opened
up another door for Molesome’s challenge with their latest follow-up that was
released last year entitled, Be My Baby
Tonight.
Mastered by White Willow’s Jacob Holm-Lupo and featuring
this ‘60s-sque album cover done by graphic designer and illustrator Henning
Lindahl, Be My Baby Tonight has some
more of those unexpected challenges that Olsson and some of the band members that
appear on this album, lend Mattias a helping hand. And when I was listening to
the album, it was like walking through this crazy-like maze that Olsson himself
has created for me.
Listening to both sides 1 & 2, its quite an oddball mixture
is thrown in to create these sounds from lounge music, trip-hop, BBC
Radiophonic workshop, sounds from the turntable, folk, classical, and string
sections. What Molesome is doing between those different sides of the LP is to come
along with their surreal and twisted journey that will keep you guessing until
the very end.
And it is like you are in on the joke, and the joke is
completely on you from beginning to end. So is Molesome doing a nod to The
Residents? Faust’s The Faust Tapes, Or
something straight out of Andy Votel’s Finders Keepers’ label? If you answered
all of the above, you are right on the money with that. So be prepared to be a
part of Molesome’s new release, Be My
Baby Tonight.
