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Sonny Crocket’s sound holds a lot and is often hard to describe, but everything falls into place with great certainty when you are listening. The band is not part of any trend, but will still be there when the latest trend has passed. Through the years they have picked the best of the best of their repertoire. All the members have put in their own influences. The interesting guitar riffs echoing of early American alternative rock like Sonic Youth and Pixies. Behind the bands inventive keyboards is Daniel Bertholdsson, who as a DJ always gathering new impressions (listen to the synth beat in the introduction of This State). Sometimes you can hear shadows of surf pop, sometimes disco. There is also a hint of psycodelia, garage rock, power pop and new wave influences. Every listener finds different things in the sound, often with delight. Every track has it’s own stamp but the material is always joined together by Per Ströberg’s refreshingly cocky voice and the obvious team work of the band. -Influences are nothing you choose its things that creep up on you, whether you are aware of it or not, Per says. Some people might think that sounds a bit all over the place but we see it as our strength. An album shouldn’t be homogenous; it should take you on a journey. The members have got very different personalities but there is room for them all. Sonny Crockets concerts has always been high speed 30 minutes explosions that leaves the audience wanting more. This presence can be hard to catch in a recording studio. Many excellent live bands have made albums that sound really flat, but Sony Crocket has succeeded. Instead of cramming in as much material as possible, they have killed many darlings and combined the strength from two quite essentially different recording periods. One basic and rich with details and one well prepared and immediate. The result is an album that would have fitted on a LP. The twelve tracks are relatively short and “to the point”, it is impossible to find any lifeless moments. The album is “on”; when it’s got you it won’t let you go. There is a restless energy in the music as well as n Per’s lyrics. The charismatic singer, who has lived for some time in Tennessee, knows how you tell a story with a twist. He has probably got impressions from the Country music that he didn’t like when he lived there, but realised he missed when he left. “Influences”, yet again. Without even the lyric writer’s knowledge the band has always ad a continuing theme in their lyrics. They’re about running away, travel, the desire to leave, or to be on the way somewhere. There is an endeavour to strive for something else – maybe something better – maybe something that you can’t put your finger on, but which has always been the fuel for most vital rock music. Maybe there is no surprise that David Bowie, the pop history’s most restless and hard to place artist, is Per’s favourite. Sonny Crocket also mixes the genres but in the end they are still them selves. Another influence that might not be heard, but can be sensed, is American high school- and collage films, from Porky’s to the Breakfast Club. This feature was mirrored is the band’s last single, the characteristically titled Get Away and its video clip.