Pitchfork

On the recently (re)posted "Gronlandic Edit", Athens, Ga., psych-poppers Of Montreal sing, "Guess it would be nice to give my heart to a god/ But which one?" Long-running Swedish duo Club 8 describe this urge to believe a little differently on "Jesus, Walk With Me", the spare, heart-tugging lead track from latest album The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Dreaming. "Fool me into believing/ I don't care if you're deceiving/ I wouldn't want it any other way/ 'cause then I'd only stay the same," Karolina Komstedt sighs over nylon-string guitar figures by Johan Angergård (who also heads up the Labrador label, plays in Acid House Kings, and fronts the Legends).

This video by Sweden's PSL puts the song's faithful yearning in a setting at once intimate and majestic, and definitely appropriate: a church. Angergård's reserved playing reverberates across the pews, and Komstedt's vocal rings out clear and ingenuous as a choir girl's solo. We've already written about "Heaven" and "Whatever You Want", also tracks from Club 8's new album, but this video might be an even better entry point to the duo's wistful, melancholic pop. Jesus, Allah, Buddha, I love you all, shit.

[from The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Dreaming; out now in Sweden and due 11/13/07 in the U.S. on Labrador, and due 12/03/07 in the UK on Fortuna Pop!]