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Solblomma firar in sommaren med Eugen!

Tuesday, June 10th, 2025

How to sum it up? The best I can offer is Pink Floyd meets Judy Garland, somewhere over a rainbow.

Solblomma returns with another track from her album, ‘Alla var där’ (‘Everyone was there’) which will be released on 15th August.

She says it is the track she loves the most and it is called ‘Eugen’.

Every track on the album refers to a different character and each has their own story to tell.

Some of them have regular names such as Kjell, Eugen, Jasmine, Solvej, and Mats while others carry a more familiar moniker, like Brigitte Bardot and Don Quijote.

Trying to figure out the meaning of a Solblomma song is like challenging Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. In fact I’m surprised Einstein isn’t one of the characters, he would have blended in perfectly.

Solblomma also describes it as “very mainstream”, which means she’s stepping well outside her comfort zone, which is anything but.

Here is a sample snippet of the lyrics:

“It’s been a long time/the wine fell from the clouds

You turned on the music/and asked me to come in”

Hm.

And then, later, some lines that have significance for me in an obscure way.

“It’s been a long time/we rode our bikes on the highway

and swam in the bay/where’s the blue scarf?”

The cognoscenti will know that Oldham Athletic, a founder member of the Premier League in 1992 and who play in blue, was promoted back into the Football League’s fourth tier last Sunday after too long away from it and 35 years since they last won a promotion.

And you see that’s what I’ve said before about Solblomma; she doesn’t write nonsense lyrics any more than Jonathan Swift (Gulliver’s Travels) or Voltaire (Candide) or Jerome K. Jerome (Three Men in a Boat) or Alexei Sayle (Barcelona Plates) wrote nonsense prose.

She writes stuff that you can easily fit to your psyche, your history and your view of the world.

But then the final lines,

“I have pigs in my stomach/they moved in/one morning in July

That’s when/they came”

do test me, I admit! Were they in blankets?

Musically, having deserted her trademark electronic sound last time she’s very much back there on this occasion with a constant repeating riff (this time a synthesised bass note gnawing its way into your subconscious), following an intro that sounds as if it is played on a toy single octave piano and a tune that might accompany a merry-go-round funfair ride.

How to sum it up? The best I can offer is Pink Floyd meets Judy Garland, somewhere over a rainbow.

It isn’t psychy but it isn’t that far off it and could easily gravitate that way.

There are many avenues left for her to navigate yet.

/David Bentley

Solblomma (Sweden) – Eugen (single/future album track)

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Dante Experience

Wednesday, April 26th, 2023

Platform 7, Gare du Nord: “Soon I tiptoe into Limbo”

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Solblomma packs passport and toothbrush!

Wednesday, March 8th, 2023

Photo by Jonas DahlbergSolblomma on the road

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Some new studio collaborations!

Sunday, February 5th, 2023

Photo by Jonas Dahlberg

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Solblomma in Katarina kyrka 8 mars 18:30!

Tuesday, March 8th, 2022

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Madame Butterfly

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022

Photo by: Henrik P Lundqvist

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Late at last, this old song from the SF film “Eva & Adam – Fyra födelsedagar och ett fiasko” is on Spotify!

Monday, February 7th, 2022

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Now you can Dansa all night long!

Friday, January 8th, 2021

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Review California in Nordic Music!

Wednesday, August 26th, 2020

Some quotes from this excellent review by David Bentley at the Nordic Music Review

 

“This one returns to the realm of ambient electronica, where I suspect she feels most comfortable, and is in English.”

 

“There is also a lyrical section that could have been taken out of the Directors’ cut of Blade Runner, the Rutger Hauer final scene.”

 

“I´ve seen hundred horses dancing/On a meadow by the sea/I have seen the world exploding/for a moment I was free”.

 

“You have to be mentally prepared for her quirkiness, but she’s always entertaining.”

 

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Vara själv – new song

Saturday, March 21st, 2020

“Jag vill vara ensam fler stunder än det finns.

Sitta under himlen vid en älv.

Stör mig inte, snälla, jag klarar inte mer.

Jag vill bara vara för mig själv.”

 

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Gläns över sjö och strand

Thursday, December 26th, 2019

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Solblomma Live at the BAM Royal Maze Project Container

Monday, December 16th, 2019

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Enjoy Solblommas Fantasy Music universe

Saturday, December 7th, 2019

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GOD IS IN THE TV – UK – Review – Magic Rocket Man

Monday, December 2nd, 2019

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“This time, the tempo moves upbeat and, if I can say so, it’s a little more mainstream and with far greater electronic embellishment and production than previously.”

“she’s found a killer hook.”

“For the first time since I first wrote about SoLBLoMMa three years ago I can say with hand on heart that the quirkiness, while I miss it, has been subjugated sufficiently for this song to chart seriously, and not only in Sweden.

She continues to move in another direction from most of her peers and that originality is deserving of success.”

“8/10”

God is in the TV Zine UK Review Magic Rocket Man

 

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Solblomma is coming again

Tuesday, November 26th, 2019

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Magic Space Man Coming Soon!

Tuesday, November 5th, 2019

The New Single “Magic Space Man” will be available on 15th of November 2019.

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