Soundtrack Of Our Lives Behind The Music CD

BEHIND THE MUSIC was nominated for the 2003 Grammy Awards for Best Alternative Music Album.

Even before the Swedish rock invasion hit the US full-force in 2002, the Soundtrack Of Our Lives was making waves. While the careless are quick to lump them in with their neo-garage countrymen, it's vital to note that SOOL, led by singer-songwriter Ebbot Lundberg, are far beyond that. While they do knock out some zesty, old-school rock guitar riffs, these Swedes bear more noticeable echoes of late-'60s Pink Floyd, Who, Stones, and Beatles. In other words, they've managed the previously impossible task of making a new "classic rock" record that somehow sounds completely fresh. Sophisticated production and songwriting are the rule, whether the band is engaging in psychedelic ballads, driving rockers, or Badfinger-like power pop.

Ian Person (guitar, percussion, background vocals); Martin Hederos (piano, organ, mellotron, background vocals); Ake Karl Kalle Gustafsson (double bass, bass, cembalo, background vocals); Fredrik Sandsten (drums, percussion).

6 Piece Swedish Band

Personnel: Ebbot Lundberg (vocals, dulcimer, sitar, harmonica); Ake Karl Kalle Gustafsson (vocals, violin, double bass, background vocals); Martin Hederos (vocals, piano, organ, Mellotron, keyboards, background vocals); Ian Person (guitar, percussion, background vocals); Eva Tea Lundberg (horns); Arpad Carlesäter (hand claps).

Recording information: Music-A-Matic (2000); Svenska Grammofonstudion (2000).

Photographer: Henrik Rylander.

Unknown Contributor Roles: Anna Strid; Per Svensson.

The Soundtrack Of Our Lives: Ebbot Lundberg: (vocals, dulcimer, sitar, harmonica); Mattias Barjed (various instruments, guitar, background vocals);

Rolling Stone (12/26/02, p.110) - Included in Rolling Stone's "50 Best Albums of 2002"
Rolling Stone (10/02, p.72) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...Like Guided By Voices, the Soundtracks know where the good stuff is buried, and they charge it with new life..."
Spin (1/03, p.72) - Ranked #30 on Spin's list of 2002's "Albums of the Year"
Spin (11/02, p.122) - 9 out of 10 - "...A near-perfect vision of futures past..."
Q (12/02, p.68) - Included in Q Magazine's "The 50 Best Albums of 2002."
Q (1/02, p.107) - 4 out of 5 stars - "...Psychedelic whimsy turned into hard-rock bluster....re-creating the sound of rock's golden age...ransacking its melody library..."
CMJ (9/30/02) - "...Amazingly fresh...fantastically new....it's here. It's now. These are the moments to live in."
Mojo (Publisher) (3/02, p.114) - "...Fantastic...bringing to mind a roll-call of classic late-'60s acts. BTM is heavy with mellotrons, dulcimers, sitars and many, many electric guitars. It's a revelation, a psych-tinged collection of hard-rocking pop hooks played with irresistible force..."
NME (Magazine) (1/19/02, p.28) - 9 out of 10 - "...A gloriously quixotic album which should endear them to anyone with a soft spot for rock's great gonzoid '60s iconographers: The Dandy Warhols, Monster Magnet and Oasis....they are the best post-everything six-piece space rock band in the history of the eardrum..."