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Artist
David Fridlund
12+ albums
indieswedishsinger-songwriterAllmale vocalists
about
Hailing from Malmö, Sweden, David Fridlund is the singer, songwriter and David in David & the Citizens. You could think that he wouldn’t need a solo project but he most certainly does. David & the Citizens is a band in every meaning of the word, though David writes all the songs the band makes the songs flourish; nowadays more than before. But since David is somewhat of a creative madman the band isn’t enough. The release of his first solo album “Amaterasu” was the start of a new creative boom for him. The band had taken a more rock oriented approach and all the songs he wrote on his electric guitar found ground there. But he still writes songs on his beloved piano and instead of trying to pitch everything in under the same umbrella; he started his solo project to separate the two rather distinctively separate song writing styles. You can say that the main difference between David’s solo project and David & the Citizens is, piano for the solo songs and electric guitar for the band, but that isn’t really the complete picture. I believe that there is a drive in David to stand alone, to have total freedom, an unconscious feeling in him that he stands outside everything in life and society, and he needs that musically too. Therefore a solo project. I have said to myself and David that I, as a label will never interfere or have opinions about what he does as a solo artist. That is one of the main criteria for the solo project. David does what the hell he wants. And therefore it
