Tobias Lilja-Medicine Sings Triptych (2015)

Tobias Lilja-Medicine Sings Triptych (2015)

“If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.”

Alfred Nobel

Por: Ghost Writer

As we all know, all the great electronic sounds in U.S. pop music of the last decade really came from Sweden, yes, the Swedes are enormous sound alchemists and they alone have created pretty much all of today's modern sounding pop music, I think it has a lot to do with bad weather, little sun and lots of time in isolation, a dreamland for music geeks who like to get themselves immersed music lab or home studios in order to create pure musical magic; Tobias Lilja is one of those musical wizards who thanks to technology, has been able to create impressive electronic music landscapes that would definitely call many people attention in years to come.

Lilja as a sound producer displays boundless imagination, he might be a control freak as his music is greatly detailed, helping create a powerful impact on the mind of the listener, he uses space wisely to accentuate dimensions, he heavily uses loops a repetition to energize his musical creations, as opener Medicine Sings is quick to show, his superb work with voices and the way he makes sounds resonate is admirably and gives his sometimes techno fixed beats an interesting dynamic.

In White Shell, Lilja uses a minimalistic piano line, and a wide array of sounds to make and ode to nostalgia and the kind of isolation the Berlin school of electronica once taught us, drama permeates every note and leave us prepared for Frozen Lake which as the name implies is a Ben Frost like trip thru subzero territories and some intermittent dissonant blast of sound in other to shake the listener before making a sudden change into more intricate and abstract danceable territories that would make Thom Yorke full of envy.

Lilja is a sound experimentalist, tears ahead of today's pop flirting with Swedish electronica and he still manages to immerse in enigmatic sounds everything but accessible like in the theme titled In The Dead Zone, and then goes into territories Animal Collective never dared to enter like in How to Attract Snowflakes, a painful almost gospel tinged tune that could make even a band like the mighty Sunn O))) proud of, or what could be said about the deep resounding percussive attacks of Swarming Suns.

Sin Eater is another great theme that shows that ad mentioned before, Lilja is closer to people like Ben Frost or Thom Yorke that techno music or the electronica pop experiments of the Animal Collective, giving us also important hints that Lilja future us not only in his own records but ad an interesting sound producer and obvious collaborate to other artists interesting in breaking the boundaries in music and giving pop new means of expression, it wouldn't come as a surprise to hear more from Tobias in the near future.