A Lantern and a Bell
Andrew Bulhak
, April 21st, 2021 07:56
A Lantern and A Bell finds Loney Dear paring back their sound, but the record still sparks joy for Andrew Bulhak
A Lantern And A Bell is the eighth album from Swedish composer/songwriter Emil Svanängen, who records as Loney Dear, and his second, following 2017’s self-titled album, on Peter Gabriel’s Real World label. Svanängen, who hails from the southern city of Jonköping though now lives in Stockholm, started making home-recorded albums of meticulously arranged, intensely introspective chamber-pop in the early 00s and releasing them on CD-Rs. In 2006, he had a breakthrough with his fourth album,