RETURN TO THE MOON  

1) Nobody Else Will Be There; 2) Day I Die; 3) Walk It Back; 4) The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness; 5) Born to Beg; 6) Turtleneck; 7) Empire Line; 8) I'll Still Destroy You; 9) Guilty Party; 10) Carin at the Liquor Store; 11) Dark Side of the Gym; 12) Sleep Well Beast

Snapshot b-sides of decent band on the way of becoming a good band.

A long time back there was a short period of roughly 3-4 years where one of my sisters gave me a seemingly random album for my birthday, with little explanation or context why she had thought it would make a good gift for me. Let the Dog Drive Home was one of those gifts and I had never heard of Teitur before, but I didn't need to wade into the credits or Wikipedia to figure out he was Scandinavian. There's a particular kind of je ne sais quoi that Nordic artist embed into a number of universal umbrella styles and so even though the gently sung acoustic singer/songwriter musings of Teitur Lassen are something you could hear all over the world, it bears the kind of casual cosiness and friendly intimacy that seems to call the cold North its home. Think Magnet or Jens Lekman, to name a few - Lassen fits just right in that same company.

Let the Dog Drive Home is a great example how a great chef doesn't need an original recipe to create something that hits the mark. Lassen's chosen sound is tried and tested but loses none of its charm because of it

Physically: It's 2008 so... we get a super jewel case! One of the handful in my collection. The booklet however is far less exciting than any of the liner notes from the previous era, consisting of just photos of the ball on the album cover unraveling across fields and forests. No lyrics, nothing.