I encourage those who have enjoyed the efforts of Wintergatan to also check out the bandleader’s previous effort: Detektivbyrån. It’s a rare glimpse into Swedish street music and really captures a beautiful Göteborg vibe. It’s a nice Scandinavian minimalist approach to music that I’ve gotten a lot of enjoyment out of.

For further Nordic minimalism I also recommend the band Múm from Iceland, specifically the album Finally We Are No One. This album features the beautifully calming lyricist Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir, who was a former wife of David Portner, who some in America might know as Avery Tare of the band Animal Collective. She is featured on their 2005 album “Feels” singing and playing a deliberately off-key piano with some really interesting and very flower-child-in-the-fields melodies such as on the track “Did You See The Words”.