{"product_id":"shadows-4","title":"Shadows","description":"\u003cp\u003eStockholm based songwriter Henrik Appel returns with third album \u003ci\u003eShadows\u003c\/i\u003e. Ranging from freewheeling garage rock to intimate moments, and adding touches of jazz, \u003ci\u003eShadows\u003c\/i\u003e is inspired by the likes of Bob Dylan’s \u003ci\u003eBlond on Blonde\u003c\/i\u003e and The Fall’s \u003ci\u003eHex Enduction Hour\u003c\/i\u003e and another step of his continued evolution as a songwriter and artist. For as long as he’s been a solo artist, Henrik Appel has been in a constant state of evolution. His first album, 2018’s Burning Bodies, was a meticulous construction project, one that came together over a five-year period and that saw him chronicle, with searing honesty, the slow death of a relationship, with its nine songs written according to a stringent set of self-imposed rules, intend-ed to keep the songwriting minimalist and bare-bones in nature. His 2021 follow-up, \u003ci\u003eHumanity\u003c\/i\u003e, represented a remarkable progression of its own. It was born out of a break-up of a different kind, this time with his former bandmates in Stockholm outfit Lion’s Den; piecing together aspects of the vision he’d had in mind for the band’s never-realised second al-bum, he built from them his own sophomore LP, one that took the classic feel of Burning Bodies and imbued it with adventurous new influences, as he began to carve out a genuinely singular sound. Now, three years on from \u003ci\u003eHumanity\u003c\/i\u003e, Appel has made another ambitious left turn. Neither of his first two albums were made in complete isolation; on both, he enlisted the production services of Stockholm underground legend Martin ‘Konie’ Ehrencrona, and also collaborated on his lyrics with his partner, Emma Lind. Now, on this thrilling reinvention of a third record, Appel has turned away from perfectionism, placing chief importance instead on making a raw, human record.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PNKSLM Recordings","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50448372990283,"sku":"2216786","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Shadows_60c80fcc_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727090858","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/products\/shadows-4","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}