After a long silence, Anekdoten reemerges into the darkness with a record that is both more mature than their debut, Vemod, and yet somewhat less polished than 1995's Nucleus.
From Within feels like it was produced on a tighter budget, and the production can have a rehearsal-room feel -- although to be sitting in Anekdoten's rehearsal room is no small privilege.
The opening title track is a band tour de force of crunching bass, swooping Mellotron, and clattering snare drums; one of the real high points of the album comes with the slowly building instrumental "The Sun Absolute," built around a single pulsing bass guitar note, ghostly Mellotron flutes, and sonar ping keyboards.
But this fine album still falls a little short of its predecessor, for although Anna Sofi Dahlberg is still listed in the credits, her cello work is strangely absent from the mix.
Its departure only serves to emphasize its importance in the band's sound in previous albums.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | From Within | Anekdoten | Play | 07:25 | 17 MB | 51 MB |
| 2 | Kiss of Life | Anekdoten | Play | 04:40 | 10 MB | 34 MB |
| 3 | Groundbound | Anekdoten | Play | 05:24 | 12 MB | 38 MB |
| 4 | Hole | Anekdoten | Play | 11:08 | 25 MB | 68 MB |
| 5 | Slow Fire | Anekdoten | Play | 07:26 | 17 MB | 51 MB |
| 6 | Firefly | Anekdoten | Play | 04:49 | 11 MB | 31 MB |
| 7 | The Sun Absolute | Anekdoten | Play | 06:39 | 15 MB | 44 MB |
| 8 | For Someone | Anekdoten | Play | 03:30 | 8 MB | 16 MB |
| 51 mins | 116 MB | |||||
| 51 mins | 336 MB | |||||
| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anekdoten | Engineer, Primary Artist, Producer |
| 2 | Nicklas Berg | Guitar, Mellotron, Wurlitzer |
| 3 | Anna Sofi Dahlberg | Cello, Fender Rhodes, Mellotron, Photography, Piano, Vocals |
| 4 | Janne Hansson | Engineer |
| 5 | Jan Erik Liljestrom | Bass, Lyricist, Vocals |
| 6 | Simon Nordberg | Engineer, Mixing, Organ (Hammond), Piano, Producer |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |
| CD Quality | FLAC | 16bit 44.1kHz | FLAC is an audio coding format which uses lossless compression. Digital audio in FLAC format has a smaller size and retains the same quality of the original Compact Disc (CD). |