Complex Music for Everyone: An Interview With Loney, Dear

[12 March 2007]

by Jennifer Kelly

Emil Svanägen, the Swedish pop auteur otherwise known as Loney, Dear, has no patience at all for minimalism or primitivism or any of the -isms that make music less baroquely abundant than it naturally is. "For me I want to make complex music that everyone can like."
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