pop*eye...Dylan Mondegreen

Ready for some good pop?
Ready for a new pop crush?
Of course you are!...

Well hold on to your hats kids because I have one for you. The dreamy Norwegian Dylan Mondegreen (aka Børge Sildnes) is your man. His debut album While I Walk You Home is incredible. Think Todd Rundgren and Burt Bacharach and you have Mondegreen. The album is filled with beautiful lyrics and crisp clean melodies. This guy has made a timeless pop album. I haven't been this excited about a pop record since Duncan Sheik's debut album in 1996. Here are my current favorites from this amazing album: "Girl In Grass", "Broken French", and "While I Walk You Home" are on heavy rotation for me right now.

Dylan Mondegreen -While I Walk You Home

Indie-pop has entered its soft-rock phase, and... it sounds pretty good. Dylan Mondegreen is Norwegian singer and songwriter Børge Sildnes, whose debut album, the all-analog While I Walk You Home, just came out last month on Division. Mondegreen's current single, "Girl in Grass", should give you a good sense of what he's up to, a sound somewhere between the bedsit strums of the Lucksmiths or the Field Mice and the syrupier softness of 1970s AM staples like Bread. Nor are the results far off from the sighing pop of Swedish contemporaries the Honeydrips, whose "Fall From a Height (The Field Way)" we previously put on repeat.

In the video, a neatly-attired Sildnes can be seen picking out clean, slightly jazzy figures on a sleek Telecaster. It's a sunny day, he's standing in front of a tree, and his friends are sitting behind him. If any of this exacerbates your fall allergies, well, you still might find "Girl in the Grass" an unassuming pleasure-- and we haven't even told you yet about the dripping strings, acoustic jangle, bubblegum melody, or, shit yeah, saxophone solo. "You want your heart to break/ To feel the sweetest ache," Sildnes coos gently enough to make Sam Beam sound like a shouter, as the backdrop shifts toward night and then Halloween festivities. It all makes for an ode to beauty that isn't afraid to eschew ugliness altogether.

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