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Pelle Carlberg
The Lilac Time
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From The Lilac Time's opening track, Sweden's Pelle Carlberg
telegraphs what he's all about by titling it "1983 (Pelle &
Sebastian)." The allusion to the literary, winsome Scottish jangle-pop
group is a defense mechanism against critics who undoubtedly are aching
to drop that pun. As far as Belle & Sebastian homages go, The
Lilac Time ably captures the easygoing lope; the hummable, sunlit
tunes; and Stuart Murdoch's intimate, wispy, and enticingly enervated
singing. Carlberg is an engaging, witty lyricist, too—I've never
heard of anyone penning an anti-
animal-lovers song ("they bore me
to death"), and it's about fucking time. If talent borrows and genius
steals, then Carlberg is a genius. 
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