Oil is a quietly spooky release from Berlin-based, Swedish-born Fredrik Kinbom. His signature sound is the re-imagined lap steel – mellow and atmospheric. The sliding swirls of guitar and occasional melancholy harmonium paint all inky blues and greys. There are fragmented and chilling instrumentals (Siena, Ought To (Reprise), Cotton Curve) and cinematic songs in which the melodies snake and coil around the guitar line (Oil, Ought To, Come Down). Kinbom co-wrote and played on Sarah Blasko's I Awake and features her eerie wordless vocals on final track, Roots And Rubble. A slow and beautiful record.
