Jeniferever - Spring Tides

Further proof that Scandinavia is responsible for some of the most exciting and inventive music around just now, Swedish quartet Jeniferever are back with a truly exceptional second album. The ten tracks here aren’t songs as much as they are miniature symphonies with movements and a vast dynamic range, each complete in itself. Take St Gallen, for example: icy, circling piano shivers give way to sonorous brass, blossoming fully when rippling guitars and Kristofer Jonson’s impossibly light vocals emerge four minutes in. Track length regularly exceeds six minutes, and a couple venture closer to ten, but Spring Tides never feels indulgent; rather, each song is given the required time to breathe and grow. Picking a standout track is nigh on impossible, but Nangijala and the thundering Green Meadow Island certainly command attention. Startling, immense and utterly stunning, Spring Tides is the rarest of albums: one to lose yourself in unconditionally.