Album Review: CEO - Wonderland

Eric Berglund, aka CEO, one half of Sweden's Tough Alliance label (jj, Memory Tapes, Air France) makes music with bright light shining through the cracks. His songs have white-hot cores, contained by intricate and vibrant shells of synth piano, strange samples of warped vocal stabs and feather-light melodies that wouldn't be out of place on a '70s glam rock LP. Wonderland, his second album, is full of the same energy, but it's less focused than his previous work – he's high on his own supply. It's opaque, thematically, but it's easy to project onto such broad interesting canvases as these.