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1. Put a bit of English on it
Even the aforementioned Sigur Rós have warmed up to a bit of English on their records, but that darn Ejstes is stuck in his foreign-language ways (album title aside). C'mon buddy, show some love to your lazy, ethnocentric stateside audiences and put your heartwarming lyrics in occasional words we can understand.

2. The piano man
Man, his publicity folks weren't kidding when they highlighted Ejstes' deference toward the keys on 4. It's not like he's suddenly Billy Joel, but songs like "Finns Det Någon Möjlighet" have a damn-near Mott the Hoople-worthy jaunt.

3. What's up, shorty?
Not that the album is without its tangential episodes, but there's some relatively terse material here. Hell, six of the track are a tidy sub-four minutes (there seems to be a theme happening around the number four here… have they been hanging with the Verve?). What’s next? A tour with Melt Banana?

4. Just another brick in the wall of sound
Ejstes has finally, fully tapped into his inner hip-hop producer. Songs like "Fredag" eschew the trappings of brevity by creating a multi-dimensional experience that feels baroque, beautiful, brooding and bouncy all at once. If only actual hip-hop knob-twiddlers like the RZA showed such focus in their most recent projects.

5. Am I evil?
Maybe Ejstes has been diggin' some Black Mountain of late, but the bottom-end of his songs are getting noticeably meatier, particularly on tracks like "Mina Damer och Fasaner," which sounds less like the psychedelic '60s of Haight-Ashbury than the doom and gloom of Black Sabbath's Birmingham. Hey, at least it’s not skewing closer to Alabama's Birmingham.

4 tracklisting:

1. Sätt Att Se
2. Målerås Finest
3. Det Tar Tid
4. Samtidigt 1
5. Ingenting Är Sig Likt
6. Fredag
7. Finns Det Någon Möjlighet
8. Mina Damer och Fasaner
9. Samtidigt 2
10. Bandhagen