What is it? I want it.

There is something in certain songs, by certain bands, that just sounds like where I want to be. Almost impossible to describe the feeling, but when I hear it, all of me just shuts down except for some primal portion, which fills with longing for whatever 'it' is. The kind of song I want to somehow get inside. Such songs depress me, because as they finish I am filled with the sense I will never get to go there, enter that world that the song creates. Probably sounds ridiculous, but its the closest I can get with these clumsy words to what I mean. And what comes out is still pretty far off. Anyway, this I hear in songs from Gardenian, In Flames, and especially Passenger. I thought perhaps it was the touch of Niklas Englin or the voice of Anders Friden, but I have heard a new band which does this. And the singer is female.

Promise and the Monster, which is a very interesting name. Amazing. Described as José Gonzalez if he were a serial killer and female, which I love. What I notice however, is that all the bands that have this touch are Swedish. I used to think it was something to do with the Gothenburg area, but Promise and the Monster are from Uppsala. As I have said before though, it would seem Sweden is awesomeness incarnate, so this just goes as more evidence. What is it with that country?