Even though this is the third solo album Ebbot Lundberg has come up with unless you are familiar with the Swedish band he fronts, The Soundtrack of Our Lives, you probably didn’t even notice. And you should have, not only he has come up with countless (literally) excellent albums with his band, but because his solo output proves it even more so. Particularly this, his third outing, “For The Ages To Come”.
Lundberg has not only made a sublimation of his band's career but of all the music he is inspired by, mainly Sixties and Seventies psychedelia in any shape or form or from wherever it originated. And what is even more outstanding is the fact that it is hard to say, even to the best connoisseur, where his inspiration is from. As if he has in a symbolic way made some sort of a soundtrack of his life i.e. The music that inspires him.a
The title “For The Ages To Come” is equally fitting - the music on it flows like a cool drink down your throat on a heated summer day. And that is quite descriptive of both is content and tempo. A prime example is “Drowning in a Wishing Well” like a Californian Bossa that Brian Wilson and Steve Miller wrote together. Not that Lundberg cannot pace it up, like in the excellent “Backdrop People” or very acid “Don’t Blow Your Mind” (reminded me to take out all my old Spirit records) and he does it with style and grace.
If you really want to nitpick, the lyrics on the album could have done with some brush-ups, but Lundberg never seemed to pay too much attention to those, maybe he should have at some point. Still, his songs, musicianship, harmonies here are so good, at some point, you stop caring, even paying attention to a clumsy rhyme here and there. And it starts at the very beginning and the title track which its late Sixties West Coast feel and keeps on until the and “To Be Continued”. Indeed. It definitely should.
