Dieter Schöön « AZLTRON

August 22, 2008

Dieter Schöön

Filed under: Beck,Belle and Sebastian,Clor,Dieter Schöön,Jens Lekman,Jeremy,Peter Bjorn John — AZLTRON @ 7:18 am

Some artists like to stay safely within a sound, to work with what they’re comfortable with to create songs. Dieter Schöön from Sweden is not one of those artists. On his latest release “Lablaza” he combines classical sounding horns, accordian, strings and guitar with lo-fi blips, beats and beeps that sometimes shoot past you so fast they give you whiplash. His sound is something like if Beck and Peter Bjorn & John collaborated on an album with Clor producing. His songs don’t always hit the sweet spot but you’ve got to hand it to him, there’s not anything else out there that sounds exactly like him and that’s admirable.