Downhill

Days
Downhill

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Tracklist

	Track	Duration	Listeners
1	Never came to last free download	2:48	1,242
2	Simple thing free download	2:18	3,745
3	Echo Of Last Summer full track	3:37	1,068
4	A Part of The World full track	3:14	731
5	Small and ordinary full track	4:54	518
6	Downhill full track	2:15	1,505
7	Motion full track	3:12	629

About this album

LIFE1004: Days – Downhill cdep + 7”
Artwork by: Anna Bjerger
CD: 5 tracks / 7”: 2 tracks

Days are:
Fabian Sahlqvist: vocals, guitar
John Ludvigsson: guitar
Andréas Uppman-Nilsson: bass guitar
Philip Gates: drums

Some music seems not to have been made so much as it simply fell out of the sky, the product not of intensely scrutinized songwriting-by-committee and the chipped glamour of rehearsal rooms and recording studios, but some type of celestial will. If music is as serious as life to you, you know what this means, and you probably have in mind a handful of bands who you think have achieved it.

These seven songs – the first that Days have committed to any sort of official artifact – come from years of anonymous toil and tinkering in the band’s native Gothenburg, Sweden. But they don’t sound as though they came from anywhere in particular, or were ever troubled by anything as common and earthbound as mistakes, arguments, second guesses and broken strings. Taken as a whole, it doesn’t sound like a debut, either – although its air of innocence, of untainted wonder at the beauty of life, could only have come from a band that, until now, has only existed in its own safely contained universe.

Of course, this is the great illusion that truly special bands are able to create. The reality of Days, and of their Downhill EP, is nothing so glamorous or otherworldly. “We’ve made hundreds of recordings through the years, most of them now scattered on old cassettes,” says guitarist John Ludvigsson, “but these were the ones we were most happy with at that time. The making of songs has been a goal in itself, and we were quite happy just doing that for five or six years.”