* En anglais uniquement
The Swedish electronic indie pop duo
Tribeca consists of melancholy folk-pop songwriter
Lasse Lindh and producer Claes Björklund, united in the worthy if ambitious mission "to make music [they] loved but never heard anywhere." The results may not be mind-blowingly unique, but they do stand out as more sonically adventurous than most of their compatriots in the Labrador records stable, while just as melodically winning. The first
Tribeca release, 2002's
Kate-97, was in some ways a continuation of
Lindh's second album (and English-language debut),
You Wake Up at Sea Tac, which Björklund had produced -- albeit with a more upbeat approach and fresh, meticulous, yet endearingly lo-fi production style that combined programmed beats and analog synthesizers with crunchy guitars and hushed backing vocals. Singles included the bouncy, danceable "Teenage" and a cover of
a-ha's "The Sun Always Shines on TV." When
Lindh and Björklund returned to the studio that summer, it was to work on a guitar-based third
Lasse Lindh album -- but somehow the pair wound up creating another album of electronic pop music that was released under the
Tribeca moniker instead, as
Dragon Down, in 2003 . ~ K. Ross Hoffman