[Translated from the Dutch original via Google Translate]

<span class="notranslate">"The Stockholm music hobbyist Erik Nilsson released his first album at Hidden Shoal, label include Markus Mehr and Todd Tobias.</span> <span class="notranslate"> After "Recollage" is the "Hearing Things" the second solo album from the Swede.</span> <span class="notranslate"> The first and last track of the CD, respectively 'Ex Nihilo' and 'Drawing / Dreaming', are gentle, slow guitar compositions, which are barely disturbed by creaking, crackling and abrasive sounds.</span> <span class="notranslate"> The six songs contrast between them are amalgams of acoustic instruments, field recordings and digital sounds.</span> <span class="notranslate"> The pieces are usually built around a simple rhythmic or harmonic pattern that repeats itself, Nilsson then directed into the room with all sorts of small, large, spiny or fuzzy sounds.</span> <span class="notranslate"> Sounds so 'Altitude' like a puzzle that little by little is laid.</span> <span class="notranslate"> Nilsson seems to have a preference for dullness, with a vibraphone regularly returns, but also a fake piano being taken over for a few songs, for example, in the slow, somewhat dramatic '€ ~Distance, Wind, And Heat.</span> <span class="notranslate"> Each time, the rest falls on which the Swede builds his songs.</span> <span class="notranslate">'On And Onward' is the first single.</span> <span class="notranslate"> A true pop song is, with a grand piano and a groove that goes straight.</span> <span class="notranslate"> Sounds constantly sliding over each other, including digital tunes, and what looks like a delicate wind chimes.</span>"<span class="notranslate">Hearing Things" ends as suddenly as it started, with crickets in the night.</span> <span class="notranslate"> It has become more than a nice plate, with fun musical collages.</span> <span class="notranslate"> The diversity within the songs is striking that within the sheet can be improved.</span>"

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