Lars Bygdén rides the ruins of memory on Ride The Rainbow

Lars Bygdén’s Ride The Rainbow is not as bright and harmless as the title first suggests. Released on 3 June from War, the track carries the ache of confinement, memory and things being erased before they can become permanent. Bygdén’s history in country rock and singer-songwriter music gives the song a lived-in quality. This is Americana filtered through a Swedish emotional landscape: acoustic guitars, synths, backing vocals and a sense of distance that makes the song feel both intimate and wide open. What works is the contrast between the title’s colour and the lyric’s sense of disappearance. Ride The Rainbow becomes less about escape as fantasy and more about the fragile act of trying to leave a trace. In a daily release cycle full of loud announcements, this is a quieter but meaningful entry: a songwriter using familiar tools to make loss feel vivid again.

Source: https://larsbygden.bandcamp.com/track/ride-the-rainbow