My Review: Art Fact - in Fact

 Art Fact - in Fact

Cassettes: so lacking in sound quality but full of magic, simple to use and so easy to break, mystery and infinite joy that they have characterised the days of more than a generation.

In September 1989, one arrived in the newsroom: In Fact, by Swedish band Art Fact, and it was love at first listen, I wrote about it and was delighted. Today I decided to listen to this album again and talk a little about it.

Considering where the band came from, in that fertile period then, it seemed really hallucinating and surprising that a musical reality of that specific genre could exist in that place in the world.

Stockholm has loved Synth, ever since the 1970s, and in the late 1980s, the city's scene reinforced the need to push forward the Belgian and Francophone scenes. The trio, very young but already experienced, set out to create the idea of a more gradual, less extremist sweep than other bands in the Swedish capital. The result is a bundle of thought-provoking, danceable pieces, with a well-pronounced English vocal, fragments of electronics that would be developed by other bands shortly afterwards. In Fact makes it very clear where multiple elements can be found in compositions and how lightness sometimes needs to be exposed. A real hidden gem.

Alex Dematteis

Musicshockworld

Salford

18th February 2023

https://artfact.bandcamp.com/album/in-fact