sonny crocket

Sonny Crocket’s sound holds a lot and is often hard to describe, but everything falls into place with great certainty when you are listening. The band is not part of any trend, but will still be there when the latest trend has passed. Through the years they have picked the best of the best of their repertoire. All the members have put in their own influences. The interesting guitar riffs echoing of early American alternative rock like Sonic Youth and Pixies. Behind the bands inventive keyboards is Daniel Bertholdsson, who as a DJ always gathering new impressions (listen to the synth beat in the introduction of This State). Sometimes you can hear shadows of surf pop, sometimes disco. There is also a hint of psycodelia, garage rock, power pop and new wave influences. -Influences are nothing you choose its things that creep up on you, whether you are aware of it or not, Per says. Some people might think that sounds a bit all over the place but we see it as our strength. An album shouldn’t be homogenous; it should take you on a journey.

The album is “on”; when it’s got you it won’t let you go. There is a restless energy in the music as well as n Per’s lyrics. Without even the lyric writer’s knowledge the band has always had a continuing theme in their lyrics. They’re about running away, travel, the desire to leave, or to be on the way somewhere. There is an endeavour to strive for something else which has always been the fuel for most vital rock music.