Pitchfork

From Sarah Records-inflected anorak-pop roots, Sweden's Club 8 have gone on to embrace whatever sounds seemed appropriate for their aching melodies, resulting in a handful of electro-pop-oriented releases a few years back. The second single from forthcoming album The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Dreaming, "Heaven", hangs onto an element that has played a role in the group's sound from around the turn of the millennium up through previous Forkcast premiere "Whatever You Want": the busy beats of Brazilian samba and bossa nova. You know, your usual Swedish stuff.

Not much in the way of electronics here. A joyful bassline buoys pattering hand percussion, as singer Karolina Komstedt looks back melancholically at her younger days. Johan Angergård's jangling guitars and euphoric string sounds rush in for a yearning chorus: "Now let the sun shine in, the clouds pass through/ I want our sky to open up here, too/ 'Cause I need heaven just like you." There's a whiff of mortality hanging over Komstedt's second verse, as she recalls awakening "from a safe life." But she doesn't recall much, doesn't say much (she says), so why not another chorus to ease whatever pain is chasing her? Even if it's just a hangover from the Brazilian Carnival.