The overall album is a Hit.

• A cohesive playlist and overall serious tone to the new album, the titles say it all.

Adam-Ray is a singer and fashion designer, born 1983, in Nairobi, Kenya by an Indonesian mother and Swedish father. He’s known from singing in the former hip hop duo Snook, together with Oskar Linnros.

• Aldrig mer gå ensam (Never walk alone again), starts off a bit eerie and with a hint of mysticism, like a soundtrack taken from a scary movie. There’s a build-up in the music creating an automatic cliffhanger.

• Precis som jag (Just like me) – “…out of flesh and blood”, is how the intro starts off. The song continues with a cliffhanger feel, but also with a distinct rawness and hopefulness to it – a true sing-a-long tune.

• Innan vi suddas ut (Before we’re erased) – didn’t start off as catchy. Even though this song entitles the whole album, unfortunately the only great thing about this tune is the bongo drums and the background music.

• Babbelover – The overall reaction to this one is dull. Besides not fully comprehending the title of this song, I don’t see it in the context of the song. Yet again, the background music is good, the lyrics – not as much.

• Tårarnas reservoir (Reservoir of tears) – “Nothing’s going to stop us”, is the overall meaning behind the song. No matter if you mess up, fall or hurt, we’ll pull through, as long as we have each other. Nice lyrics, nice sing-along tune.

• Svär på mammas grav (Swear on my mother’s grave) – Really nice lyrics, especially the chorus. A real –feel-happy song.

• Drömfångare (Dreamcatcher) – Serious and sad with a political message embedded between the real life stories explained in both rap and song.

• Redo att dö (Ready to die) – A very emotional song, likely to ignite a general a-ha-reaction.

• Allt det där jag aldrig blev (All that I never became) – The intro starts off tip-toeing into the chorus that gradually blends in to more instruments. This is not necessarily a cheerful song, but it is nonetheless very good.

• Där regnbågen tar slut (Where the rainbow ended) – Great song overall, with great music. Serious lyrics with that “bam!”- what-just-hit-me – effect.

Words by Derya Aktas