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• Artist: The Celophane Flower
• Album: Too Good To Be Famous
• Label: indie
• Year of Release: 2002
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• Reviewed by: dscanland on 2003-03-29

The Celophane Flower is a band from Sweden. Before you start off on “Oh, another hard rock band from Sweden. Enough already.� Let me caution you in saying that The Celophane Flower is not like the rest of the Swedish bands invading North America. In fact, I don’t even think that that is what this band wants. They have been around for a number of years now putting out their understated pop music in Sweden and it seems like they are fairly big there too. Their music is a bit of hodge-podge of styles but for the most part they remind me of the Tindersticks. They have a bit of a roots feel to them but are really big on injecting pop harmonies throughout the album. They seem to switch up vocalists quite often which adds quite a variety of styles to the album. “Betrayal� is like a bedtime confessional where someone is declaring what they have had done wrong to them. “Billy Jim Bob’s Blues� is an attempt at No Depression style music. “Loved Alone� is a spooky song with haunting vocals. Too Good To Be Famous may just be too diverse to be big over here. It showcases some very fine musicianship though.

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