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El Perro Del Mar
El Perro Del Mar
Memphis Industries
Article
written by Ged M
May 30, 2006.
Swedish gamine Sarah Assbring, aka El Perro Del Mar, writes, plays and produces almost everything on her debut album. Her distinctive voice resembles a mix of Kate Bush, Elizabeth Fraser and Nico while musically she shares a Scandinavian reserve with countryman Jens Lekman; both have melancholy tones whatever the subject. In ‘Party’, her voice is in anything but party mode while she admits “I can’t understand people” on the decaying pop of ‘People’. ‘I Can’t Talk about It’ might be Motown-influenced stomping pop but it’s brittle where Motown is unyielding and shyly cool where Motown is soulfully warm. The one time she’s unrestrained is on her cover of Dorsey Burnette’s 60s number, ‘Here Comes That Feeling’, with its warm, old-American rock’n’roll sound.
Sarah’s sound is always captivating: ‘God Knows (You’ve Gotta Give To Get)’ is produced like an early Phil Spector teen-heartbreak number, a gloopy girl group sound laden with strings and sax, while ‘It’s All Good’ la-la-las its way to infinity in Spectorish fashion. It sums up ‘The Dog of the Sea’: pretty but vulnerable and fragile, melting in the glare of attention. It’s a record to examine askew, rather that head-on, the better to appreciate its delicate construction.
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