Album Review of
Everyone's Too Sad For Everything

Written by Robert Silverstein
October 16, 2023 - 5:47pm EDT
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Following their acclaimed debut album from 2021, entitled Gethenian Suite, the Erik Dahl Ensemble are back in 2023 with Everyone's Too Sad For Everything. With the music written while coming out of the pandemic era, the sound code within is dark and deep. Based in Sweden’s port city Gothenberg, Erik Dahl released the first Ensemble album, and then in 2022 he released his solo album Music For Small Rooms, an album that featured members of the Ensemble yet, it also had a unique solo sound in its own right.

However, make no mistake about it, Everyone's Too Sad For Everything is modern 21st century music. Acquitting himself on piano and assorted synth electronics, Erik Dahl is an absolute musical alchemist and he makes the most of the ensemble’s various members. Everyone's Too Sad For Everything deserves to be enjoyed by fans of avant-garde, neoclassical and progressive music. Following in the steps of Music For Small Rooms, the ten-track, 60 minute Everyone's Too Sad For Everything is brimming with exciting ingenuity, making it essential listening for fans of the ever inventive and always evolving progressive Swedish instrumental music scene of the 2020’s.