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Returning to his craft seemingly refreshed and renewed after a six-year gap, dramatic Swede Emil Svanngen revives his Loney Dear recording moniker for a self-titled sixth album. Even Svanngen's earliest records showed a preoccupation with densely layered arrangements, but the scope of his moody chamber pop appeared to have reached some sort of lush zenith on 2011's Hall Music. As beautiful as parts of that album were, it also gave the feeling of being orchestrally oversaturated. While his follow-up is by no means a sparse affair, its various pieces seem better designed to tuck neatly into the mix, creating a more spatial environment where Svanngen's miniature epics can propagate. Taking plenty of time to develop his new approach, the Jonkoping native also found a new home to back his efforts, with Peter Gabriel's Real World Records imprint signing him in early 2017.