Airliner:
The Last Days Of August (Labrador, 2002)Favourite Songs:
The Whole album.
"I meant to call you tonight, but I ended up just like them, the people I despise, the people who never make a difference and never get anything done".
(Everything That's You)
Sometimes love really hurts. I'm aware of it and so is Kristian Rosengren. This sadminded man made an album called 'The Last Days Of August' under the name of Airliner. It's basicly his solo project, produced by multitalented Johan Angergård (club 8, Acid House Kings). Even though listening to the album is really painful, I love every second of it. Probably only two songs have ever hurted me as much as 'Last Days of August'. The other one is a song by tbs and you already know the second one if you've red everything that is on this site). I listened this album thoroughly last saturday morning at 5 am. I had already gave it a few spins, but this was the first time I really sat down, put headphones on and listened to it. Around 9 am I was still awake and I admit that I had cried a lot. Now after three sleepless nights it's time to reveal what makes this album so exquisite.
"When I see you it's like
we never happened, when I see you it all comes back"
(One Final Call)
Kristian have written 10 beautifully sad pop songs. The miserable lyrics reveal the feelings you have when you've just broken up and lost the one you love. The heartbreak and sadness are so close that you can feel them. The album invokes the feelings that don't anymore (not for years) have effect on my everyday life, but which still are a part of me, lying somewhere deep in my heart. Kristian's gentle whispering vocals drift me back to my hometown. I can remember how my dreams collapsed and my shattered heart finally broked into thousands of pieces. It was a painful time for me and I really felt like shit for months. I suppose the lyrics aren't that unordinary. There are millions of break-up songs all around us, but this album somehow gives me the feeling that makes music powerful. I can reflect to these lyrics, I've lived through the same moments and when Kristian whispers these words into my ears in a form of music that has a huge place in my heart, I'm astounded and moved. Atmosphere throughout the album is very gentle and smooth. There's that (bitter)sweet sound all indie pop fans are familiar with. Kristian's vocals are really fabulous. This is sentimental indie pop music, sorrowful but still ultimately uplifting.
"Happiness is an option" (Happiness)
For some peculiar reason, I still find the album somehow comforting and even hopeful. It hurts to listen to it, but you'll feel so much better afterwards. Music as its best is able heighten one's emotions. It reminds me of some painful feelings, true, but these moments of agony are part of me and I really wouldn't want to change the unhappiest moments of my life for all the good ones. Hopefully I don't ever need to go through anything like it again. But if it happens, I can be happy about one thing. If I'm that badly hurt, it also means that I've experienced something beautiful. I've been in love. I've felt those tiny magical moments, just holding hands, watching movies together, walking under the stars, waking up my arms around the one I love. If nothing else 'The Last Days Of August' reminds how valuable those little moments truly are.
"I just hope I'll get a chance to feel that way again" (Trying To Be Clever)
Labrador's Sound Library (inc.three Airliner's songs)
Written during some emotional night in february 2003
(One Final Call)
Kristian have written 10 beautifully sad pop songs. The miserable lyrics reveal the feelings you have when you've just broken up and lost the one you love. The heartbreak and sadness are so close that you can feel them. The album invokes the feelings that don't anymore (not for years) have effect on my everyday life, but which still are a part of me, lying somewhere deep in my heart. Kristian's gentle whispering vocals drift me back to my hometown. I can remember how my dreams collapsed and my shattered heart finally broked into thousands of pieces. It was a painful time for me and I really felt like shit for months. I suppose the lyrics aren't that unordinary. There are millions of break-up songs all around us, but this album somehow gives me the feeling that makes music powerful. I can reflect to these lyrics, I've lived through the same moments and when Kristian whispers these words into my ears in a form of music that has a huge place in my heart, I'm astounded and moved. Atmosphere throughout the album is very gentle and smooth. There's that (bitter)sweet sound all indie pop fans are familiar with. Kristian's vocals are really fabulous. This is sentimental indie pop music, sorrowful but still ultimately uplifting.
"Happiness is an option" (Happiness)
For some peculiar reason, I still find the album somehow comforting and even hopeful. It hurts to listen to it, but you'll feel so much better afterwards. Music as its best is able heighten one's emotions. It reminds me of some painful feelings, true, but these moments of agony are part of me and I really wouldn't want to change the unhappiest moments of my life for all the good ones. Hopefully I don't ever need to go through anything like it again. But if it happens, I can be happy about one thing. If I'm that badly hurt, it also means that I've experienced something beautiful. I've been in love. I've felt those tiny magical moments, just holding hands, watching movies together, walking under the stars, waking up my arms around the one I love. If nothing else 'The Last Days Of August' reminds how valuable those little moments truly are.
"I just hope I'll get a chance to feel that way again" (Trying To Be Clever)
Labrador's Sound Library (inc.three Airliner's songs)
Written during some emotional night in february 2003