Loney Dear

Swedish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Emil Svanängen makes records and plays shows under the enigmatic name of Loney dear. In the early 2000s, in his Stockholm apartment studio, Svanängen made a name for himself by creating homemade CDrs with a minidisk microphone and a home computer, self-releasing albums which by 2007 had pricked Sub Pop's ears and they released Loney Noir. Two more albums - Dear John and Hall Music - followed, as did glowing reviews in The Guardian, BBC, Drowned in Sound, Pitchfork and earlier this year the Line of Best Fit went as far as calling him a "brilliant genius". In 2017 Svanängen finds himself at something of a crossroads. His career, in many ways, has been as unique as his music. "I've been taking some strange roads. Basically, I have a really strange career and I have no idea where it's going. Everything is always random because my career is so small and slow. I have had to learn to enjoy all the randomness of what I'm doing."

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Tickets now on sale!

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Loney Dear nominated for two Swedish Grammis

We’re delighted to announce Loney dear is nominated for two Swedish Grammis:

Best Alternative Pop Album Best Composer

The awards take place on 8 February 2018 in Stockholm.

You can read the full list of nominations here.

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GFFA Sverige Album of the Year nomination

Loney dear is nominated for "Album of the year" by GAFFA Sverige! In other words it's time to vote! Note: you may vote only once, but you can edit your choices until Jan. 15. You may select 3 choices in each category, but you don't have to. / Team LD

Click here to vote

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Loney dear returns to the UK and Ireland in February 2018

We’ve just announced a run of 7 dates in the UK and Ireland next February in support of the brand new album. Tickets are on sale now.

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The seventh album, Loney dear, is available everywhere from today. You can order it on CD/Vinyl here, and start listening right away on Spotify/Apple Music/etc.

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Album Reviews

‘An elegant, understated pop masterpiece.' ★★★★ The Independent (UK)

'Celestial mini-symphonies … conjure visions of a one-man Scandi version of Animal Collective.' Uncut (UK)

'Loney dear flows organically and inevitably toward a hesitantly hopeful future' NPR First Listen (USA)

'On Loney dear, (Emil) Svanängen has finally hit the perfect balance.' 8/10 Under The Radar

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The Independent: Loney Dear album review

'An elegant, understated pop masterpiece.' ★★★★

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FIRST LISTEN: LONEY DEAR, 'LONEY DEAR'

NPR Music have chosen the new album for this week’s First Listen. Head over there now to preview the entire album ahead of its release next Friday.

'Loney Dear flows organically and inevitably toward a hesitantly hopeful future'

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Yesterday we streamed a session, recorded at Real World Studios, on Facebook Live. It featured performances of ‘Sum’, ‘Hulls’ and ‘Violent’. You can watch back here.

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‘Lilies’ now available to stream and download

‘Lilies’ is now available to stream and download on digital services. Enjoy!

“I'm not sure how I came to think of it, but I realised I really wanted Jay-Jay to sing the second chorus of Lilies, and when it was just a few days til the album master deadline I sent him the song. Also appearing is the sensitively fantastic vocalist S Carey singing lush backing vocals. I wish we had done collaborations on this song and the album, but the future is still wide open.” ~ Emil

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New Mix: Billy Corgan, Mavis Staples And Jeff Tweedy, Wolf Alice, More

This week's essential new music includes a piano ballad from Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan, a powerful look at race relations in America from soul singer Mavis Staples and more.

‘Sum’ was featured on this week’s edition of NPR All Songs Considered. Big thanks to Robin Hilton for choosing the track!

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‘Humbug’ + Llawgne Remix out now

Taken from the forthcoming album Loney dear, ‘Humbug’ is out now on Spotify and other digital outlets, along with the Llawgne Remix. Enjoy it here

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Jennie Abrahamson joins us on tour

Delighted to announce Jennie Abrahamson as special guest on the upcoming tour. She will join us for our gigs in Rotterdam, Haldern, Düdingen, Paris, London (which has now sold out) and Brussels.

Check her out: Official Website | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram

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New deal with Real World Records

Happy to finally announce that I’ve signed to Peter Gabriel’s Real World Records. We will release our new album internationally on the 29th of September. It's a thrill...

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Dear all,

Five or six years of working, recording, writing and worrying where things would go, or rather lead to. The album is now entirely finished, mastered and delivered to my new stablemates Real World Records. 

David Lindvall helped me get up from the most difficult, dark times of the works, and initiated the recordings of ‘Hulls’, my most important song of my career. I am deeply grateful for that. He took a three hour train to come see me and help out. A gorgeous man.

Me and Klabbe Hörngren have come a long way preparing, rehearsing and thinking hard about our coming 20 live shows in the pipe. Thanks to Emanuel Lundgrens initial ideas for how to do this thing, what sounds to use, what kind of aesthetics to aim for. we have something inspirational. You can see him at one of his bests, at the live recording of that Cardigans song we made. Agnes Fries have taken nothing and built an amazing visual world around LD. I get to dream, and she visualises it.

Ane Brun and Jennie Abrahamsson became such an important lead to bridging to Mr Gabriel and to Real World. Life moves in quite mysterious ways. Klas Lunding, the legend helped form, and pep the making of the album.

Come see our shows this fall, happy to see Rotterdam is selling out. Hamburg, Brussels, Paris, Dortmund, Copenhagen, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Düdingen, Haldern, Kaltern and on Umeå Jazz. Before that, the WOMAD festival, + a real world session. Jönköping, Falkenberg, a secret Gothenburg show, and we're finishing the summer in Pildammsparken in Malmö.

So deeply happy and grateful to be able to do this. And thanks for bearing with me, it took a while. Wasn't looking, but i found you. and yes Jonas. No man is an island.

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