Pitchfork

Hell on Wheels are only just now making their way from Stockholm to the U.S., first with their third album, last year's The Odd Church, and now with this new track from Darla Records' Little Darla Has a Treat For You Vol. 25: Endless Summer 2007-08. All the elements that made The Odd Church swoop and dive like a rollercoaster-- and garnered all those Pixies comparisons-- are abundant in these three compressed minutes: As Johan Risberg taps out a rim-shot beat as steady as water torture, Rickard Lindgren sings the verse soft and nervous, and Åsa Sohlgren comes in to kick him in the shins. Their voices-- his sour, hers sweet-- blend together in an uneasy, almost antagonistic harmony that rides the addled shimmy-shake in their guitar-bass-drums din: It is, as Lindgren sings, "the sound of a mind completely obsessed."