In Transit

The Amazing stay just out of focus. On their fifth album, In Transit, they once again perform the unlikely trick of making music that is both dreamlike, drifting across the consciousness, as well as perfectly constructed.

While In Transit shares the sense of mood of many of singer and founder Christoffer Gunrup's favourite bands the Cure, My Bloody Valentine, Flaming Lips it never drifts away into self indulgence. At the heart of it all, beneath the washes of guitar, the woozy reveries, are sturdy, intensely melodic songs.

Work on In Transit began as soon as The Amazing's last album, Ambulance, was finished. That's when Gunrup began writing the 11 songs stretching over 71 minutes that make up the new record. He wrote quickly, then took them to the band, who recorded them piecemeal in (Fredrik) Swahn's studio in Stockholm.