Even The Good Days Are Bad

Since the mid-1990s, Stockholm's Last Days of April have created a succession of luminous, hook-laden LPs, earning the band's lead vocalist, guitarist, and all-around auteur, Karl Larsson, a reputation as a bonafide songwriter's songwriter. The album's title track is an introspective meditation that manages to be ecstatic, even anthemic. With glistening guitars, swerving synth lines, punchy drumming, burnished analog production, and Larsson's vulnerable yet resilient vocals, Even The Good Days Are Bad is at once new and old, of the moment and utterly classic, timely and timeless. Even The Good Days Are Bad began gestating in 2019, with Larsson unearthing songs dating back to the early 2000s and writing a gush of new material.