Bodinrocker – Special Blend
Bodinrocker’ is the name of a Swedish rock band formed in 2005 by Anders Bodin from Gothenburg, together with keyboardist Lars Ekberg, bassist Anders Mossberg and the Norwegian drummer Fredrik Wallumröd. You need only listen to their catchy music for a few seconds to immediately draw the obvious comparison with the sound of the British rock legends ‘Status Quo’, a band who, incidentally, are Anders Bodin’s great idols.
We have previously reviewed a number of ‘Bodinrocker’ albums on these pages. They made their debut back in 2006 with the album “Hall Of Flames”, and in 2010 the album “Mysterious Man” was released, followed by “Rock It The Right Way” in 2014. This was followed in 2017 by the EP ‘Roller Coaster Ride’, and at the end of 2018 they released their latest full-length album, ‘Eye To Eye’. In our review of that album, we had to mention their uncomplicated, fun rock sound in the style of ‘Status Quo’, and we really can’t offer any different analysis of their latest full-length CD, “Special Blend”, which we were recently sent.
As musical evidence to support this claim, we have selected two tracks from this twelve-track album for the audio-videos included below. First, you’ll hear the album’s title track, “Special Blend”, followed by the swinging guitar rocker “Feels So Good”. But it could just as easily have been other tracks from this album, as in terms of tempo and musical style, they all fall under the same umbrella.
Some titles of such songs, characterised by catchy guitar riffs, include “No Blues Tonight”, “Rock’n’Roll Star”, “Give Us Some Rock And Roll”, “We Were Young” and “This Song Is For You”, on which guest musician Gabriel Ekberg, the brother of keyboardist Lars, plays the mandolin. The somewhat odd one out is the closing track “Ligger I Min Famn” (‘lying in my arms’), a slower rock ballad which frontman Anders Bodin sings in his native Swedish and wrote for his first-born son.
As a paramedic, Anders Bodin is often confronted with horrific scenes in his daily life, and he claims that the best way for him to detach himself from them is through the music he creates with his band. We can certainly imagine that, as the contrast between all that daily misery and the wild fun the band can have on stage seems to us to be emotionally worlds apart. A nice, swinging ‘feel-good’ track like “Special Blend” by ‘Bodinrocker’, with its classic rockers, can therefore be particularly useful for really letting your hair down
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