The Invention of Loneliness

LPA

1. Black Swann
2. Chameleon
3. Fire on the Moon (Album Edit)
4. Free Your Mind From Me
5. Flickering Lights

LPB

1. Next to You
2. Paramount
3. Rivers
4. Supervisions
5. Black Star

Swedish singer, producer and multi-instrumentalist Alexander Sjödin doesn’t fit most of the archetypes associated with electronic music. Recording under the name Sailor and I he mines a territory that brings to mind the melancholic, ambitious and richly orchestrated songwriting of Sigur Ros or Bon Iver, as much as the deep Balearic techno class of DJ-producers such as Solomun and Dixon. Sailor and I has been on quite a journey since he first caused an A&R storm on Soundcloud in 2011 with Tough Love, a string-swathed ballad that managed to bring to mind both Philip Glass and Kate Bush. Five years later, he’s signed to Skint, an album’s worth of material ready to go.