Cocoanut Groove: Colours (Ep, 2012)

Chicos y chicas, estamos ante una de las joyas que servidor haya escuchado en los últimos tiempos. Los suecos han facturado un disco grandioso, que sin duda se queda corto. Un Ep que se oye de arriba a abajo en un momento, que se disfruta y que nos deleita los oídos. Su sonido característico, acentuado, los rasgos del Retro-Pop son más claros, con elementos como el clavicordio de The Storm. La huella de bandas míticas como The Left Banke, Love, Sagittarius, The Zombies, aderezadas con el toque Belle and Sebastian (I´ve been following lonely roads, July) o la sutileza de la guitarra de doce cuerdas con el trademark de Roger McGuinn (Huckleberry). Por no hablar del toque fronterizo-sesentero con esos metales evocadores del Da Capo de Love del primer single extraído del Ep: Colours, que da nombre al disco; una canción de esas de sentimientos a flor de piel.
Seis cortes de los que no podemos dejar atrás ninguno. Cada uno tiene su propia historia y su propia personalidad, y cada uno nos evoca momentos de la historia más gloriosa del Pop. Nos diréis que su originalidad no es mucha, pero os equivocaréis, porque Cocoanut Groove reivindican para sí el protagonismo de todas esas huellas sonoras, sin renunciar para nada a ninguna. Su originalidad estriba en saberlas poner al día y actualizarlas convenientemente.
Colours es de las últimas referencias de Fraction Discs, el sello sueco especializado en esta suerte de Pop delicado. Puedes encontrar el disco en su página.

Cocoanut Groove – Colours (Ep, 2012)

“Olov Antonsson’s musical journey took off in the early 00’s in Northern Sweden with cult-declared indiepop band The Tidy Ups, and he later joined Mattias Malm (from Funday Mornings) in his search for the perfect pop song in Everyday Mistakes. Some years later a perfect rendition of the 60’s baroque pop sound appeared on the internet: “The End Of The Summer On Bookbinder Road” by Olov Antonsson’s Cocoanut Groove. Not only had he made a Gothenburgian wordplay with a wink to (the almighty) Roger Nichols, he wrote in fact the same kind of elegant and rich orchestrated pop music that Michael Brown did with his The Left Banke. The song was released on a 7” single on Phonic Kidnapping in 2008, and later that year the praised debut album “Madeleine Street” was released on the Swedish Fridlyst label. Ten songs of 60’s sunshine pop and baroque pop, with a bit of folk thrown in. And at the same time an original piece of art.
After a hiatus, Cocoanut Groove is back with a much longed-for ten-inch on Fraction Discs! The new EP ”Colours” continues where the album left off – elegantly orchestrated pop melodies taking their starting point in the late sixties. With inspiration from sunshine pop, baroque pop and folk artists such as The Zombies, Love, The Left Banke, Sagittarius and Donovan, Olov Antonsson has written six new songs that perfectly balance the Swedish melancholy with the Californian sunshine. From the pop symphony “Colours” and the beautiful melancholia of “I’ve Been Following Lonely Roads” to the 60’s-tinged “Huckleberry” and the galloping Love-esque “The Spell”, this EP is a glorious example of Cocoanut Groove’s sensible production. Adorned with harpsichord, trumpet and viola, the arrangements enrich the melodies without the heartfelt core of the songs ever being lost” (fractiondiscs.se)

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