Peter Bjorn & John - Darker Days (New CD)

2018 release, the eighth studio album from the Swedish trio. Darker Days is the follow-up to 2016's Breakin' Point. Darker Days first began coming together in Stockholm at Atlantis Studios, where the songs were written in the immediate aftermath of Breakin' Point. A concerted effort to, as a press release puts it, "strip away the noise," however, has resulted in a careful, measured march towards a "composed and simple" album. The album's construction began with the conjuring of it's title, which Peter Morén, Björn Yttling and John Eriksson used as a jumping off point for their songs. Though composed separately, the songs each feature contributions from the individual members.