of Course, there will be no encore, of course, ” says Fredrik Lindson not even a thank you between songs. He still makes a few gestures in full communication with the audience and at the end, are all conducting a reasonably synchronized bow. For a band so consciously awkward as The Embassy, it is almost equivalent to publikfrieri.

Yes, after that through the years have tested both singback, and to set stand-ins on stage can see it as generously already to Göteborgsduon is in place – with a complementary extragitarrist and fully focused on delivering its music.

And the fact is that Lindson smile wide most of the time, let be an ambiguous smile that can bring to mind a spefull Olle Ljungström. As if the uncomfortable with to appear have gone over when he has become a grånad medelåldersman and no longer need to relate to today’s popströmningar. The Embassy is a band from the past now, how they go, absolutely no matter that most of the time they play this evening comes from the only crowd the album ”the White lake”.

cut in him when he forced himself to ask for more monitor in their monitor, and apologized for it was the world’s worst mellansnack. To some extent, the entire band’s career is seen as a way to set themselves in contrast to the kind of conventional rockbeteende.

as well As the truliga attitude seems to reflect a way to bother eleven times more on the long list of everything they absolutely must not allow himself to do, than on the much shorter relating to the music they love loud and clean.

once in the beginning, it meant a light and fragile gitarrpop, since most of the new impulses taken from dance music, from the kulörkitschigt balearic to more harshly repressed thumping house, and lately a touch of syntknollrig raveretro.

like damn it all to the exact same little corner of the frozen and wobbly, anglofil indie pop, the kind that keeps gitarrklangerna clean and rather swaying in the music. A bit like a källarbandsversion of the Pet Shop Boys or New Order, but with a backpack full of much narrower name.

Compromised, they have never done, in movement, they are on their way still and when they at irregular intervals, choose to show himself – as in this short trekvällars tour of sweden – they manage to confirm their achieved legend in a way that the outside world does not need the notice at all.