The Wannadies - Before & After flac album

Before & After is an album by Swedish band The Wannadies. Originally released in Scandinavia in 2002 on two compact discs comprising the 'before' and 'after' parts, the album was released on 8 September 2003 in the UK on a single disc with an enhanced multimedia section featuring videos for the singles "Skin", "Disko" and "Little By Little". All tracks written by Wiksten, S. Schönfeldt, F. Schönfeldt, Karlsson, Dahlgren.

If Yeah was the sound of the Wannadies getting bad blood out of their system, then Before and After is its joyous, carefree follow-up, a record as free and uninhibited as the last weeks of June, when the promise of the entire summer still lies ahead. Well, mostly anyway - the Wannadies haven't completely abandoned their demons, as a song like "Piss on You" shows - but this is basically a happier Wannadies than the last time out. So why does it feel so hollow? Before and After was marked by a slightly difficult birth - initially conceived as a "concept" double album.

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One album (Before) was intended to be the "party record," with quick, snappy tunes you might dance to, while the second (After) was to be the "comedown," full of ballads and slower tracks. It's clear from the final version, however, that this concept could never have played out effectively, since the band simply doesn't vary their sound enough to really convey different moods- the slow tracks feel just as upbeat as the fast ones, and the fast ones aren't terribly danceable in their own right. Ultimately, The Wannadies are exactly good enough to pull off a 36-minute pop record, so it's for the best that they left their lofty ambitions at the curbside and concentrated on writing pure sugar like "All Over Me" and "Disko", the latter of which leads off the After half of the album with a slippery lounge groove, some big guitar hooks.

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Before and After was marked by a slightly difficult birth - initially conceived as a "concept" double album in which the first disc was "go out and party" music and the second was mellow "come down" music, the project was trimmed down to a single disc. The concept stuck, though, as the first half a dozen songs (the "before" half) are, as they said, the "party" songs, and the latter half ("after") are mostly reflective ballads

The Wannadies were an alternative rock band formed in 1988 in Skellefteå, northern Sweden. The band's initial line-up featured Pär Wiksten (vocals, guitars), Christina Bergmark (born 1 March 1963) (keyboards, vocals), Stefan Schönfeldt (born 5 June 1965) (guitars) and his younger brother Fredrik Schönfeldt (bass) with Gunnar Karlsson (drums) and Björn Malmquist (violin).