{"product_id":"follow-the-light","title":"Follow The Light","description":"\u003cp\u003e“The closest we’ll ever get to heaven, with a stolen six pack from 7\/11, and though the city sleeps I better she never dreams, she never dreams like you and me.” The beginning moments of Molly Nilsson’s second album \u003ci\u003eFollow The Light\u003c\/i\u003e now seem like the start of a personal mythology that was to reach further than she could have imagined. Few contemporary artists have so seeped into the underground pop psyche than the Stockholm-born songwriter. After releasing her debut \u003ci\u003eThese Things Take Time\u003c\/i\u003e on hand-made CDrs, Nilsson’s follow up was a leap in scope and ambition. Of course, the personal takes on a tumultuous life in Berlin and the journeys to and from it inform the songs as before, but there’s a growing maturity in the songwriting in evidence. From the diary pages of \u003ci\u003e These Things Take Time\u003c\/i\u003e to a growing stature as a songwriter in touch with the universal, \u003ci\u003eFollow The Light\u003c\/i\u003e contains many of Nilsson’s now firm fan-favourites. \u003ci\u003eThe Closest We’ll Ever Get To Heaven\u003c\/i\u003e is classic Molly Nilsson. Over plaintive piano chords and little else, Nilsson narrates a story of doomed friends lost, the onset of an East German winter reminding the singer of a time lost, nostalgia frosting the windows to the past. \u003ci\u003e Meanwhile In Berlin\u003c\/i\u003e, perhaps a passing nod to Leonard Cohen in the melodic refrain, opens up the sonic palette, with synth strings fitting Nilsson’s delivery perfectly. \u003ci\u003eNever O’Clock\u003c\/i\u003e is a pure pop moment, with a lilting funk and percussion adding a carpe diem immediacy to the album’s flow. \u003ci\u003eLast Forever\u003c\/i\u003e, which remains a staple to live encores now, seven years later, is fist-pumping melancholy that only Molly Nilsson knows how to do. It’s over before it begins and begs eternal repeat. Truth, a synth pop song that sees Nilsson exploring the upper and lower registers of her voice, feels like a lost chart hit from the mid 80s. \u003ci\u003eI Hope You Sleep At Night\u003c\/i\u003e, a vitriolic lover’s admonishment gives way to one of Nilsson’s most popular songs: \u003ci\u003eI’m Still Wearing His Jacket\u003c\/i\u003e. It’s a sentiment that needs no real explanation: the mementos of a completed love affair remain in our wardrobes waiting to hurt us all over again. \u003ci\u003eHello Loneliness\u003c\/i\u003e could also be an updated Leonard Cohen song, a peon to melancholy which reminds us that Nilsson has a knack for distilling the complex into sharp epithets. We end on one of Nilsson’s greatest songs. \u003ci\u003eA Song They Won’t Be Playing On The Radio\u003c\/i\u003e is so finely loaded with emotion that it’s the singer’s reserved delivery that makes it so powerful. \u003ci\u003eFollow The Light\u003c\/i\u003e is the second installment of an ongoing Molly Nilsson reissue campaign and is the first time the album has been available on vinyl.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLP - Black Vinyl.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLP+ - Limited to 250 Copies on Clear Vinyl.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Night School","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50456899191115,"sku":"1004313","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/b5886c83-78e6-4596-9ecc-a4bcca3ae6ed_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727201654","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/products\/follow-the-light","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}