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Alfavrak Post New Single “Gud, du har förpackat mej fel”

Posted in Whathaveyou on May 29th, 2019 by JJ Koczan

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The self-appointed slogan of Stockholm-based four-piece Alfavrak is “vanlig jvla rock,” which basically translates to “regular heavy rock” or something thereabouts. The message comes through pretty clearly on the band’s new single, “Gud, du har förpackat mej fel,” which, according to a major internet company’s translation matrix, runs somewhere near, “God, You Have Packed Me Wrong.” So clearly some colloquialism at work. Fine. I’m willing to roll with it, and I honestly think that if you listen to the track, which runs a regular-ol’ sub-three minutes, they’ll get the message across. Alfavrak aren’t shooting for anything fancy here, and I don’t think they really need to. Regular-type rock does them just fine, and in an age of hyper-specialization, it’s kind of refreshing to have a rock band call it like it is.

And it should probably go without saying that the lyrics, like the song title and the band’s name — which is “alpha wreck” in English — are also in Swedish, but the message comes through in the echoing jangle of guitar, the weight of the groove and the reverb-soaked vocals. It’s a modern sound with a classic and somewhat bluesy foundation, but again, Alfavrak aren’t splitting hairs, so maybe I shouldn’t either. The new track follows a 2018 two-songer that’s available to stream via Spotify, Bandcamp, etc. — basically where streaming happens, I guess — and while I don’t know what their plans are going forward, whether they’ll do more singles, an EP, album, whatever, they certainly have a sense of what they’re looking for aesthetically, and they manage to make ordinary happen without sounding, you know, too ordinary about it.

Their announcement of the single’s release was — of course — plain and simple:

alfavrak gud du har forpackat mej fel

New single out! Recorded in the dustward.

Alfavrak gives you raw rock ‘ n roll without frills a.k.a. ordinary jvla rock!

Photo by Zäta Zettergren

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Alfavrak, “Gud, du har förpackat mej fel”

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