Chicago-based Post Animal are a band of brothers. Though they formed in 2014 and just began touring in 2017, their affinity for slick riffs, pop hooks, and psychedelic tendencies join them in a bond much tighter than their years suggest. Initially formed when childhood friends, bassist Dalton Allison and guitarist Matt Williams, met keyboardist and guitarist Jake Hirshland, the band’s sound began to take shape when the three enlisted some more pals from both the Chicago music scene and through their time working at local burger joints. Rounding out the band’s lineup, Post Animal is completed by drummer Wesley Toledo and guitarists Javi Reyes and Joe Keery.
Wilhelm Peterson-Berger is relatively unknown outside Sweden, but his three books of "romanser" (Lieder) for piano, "Frösöblomster", sit at the center of the Swedish lyric piano tradition. Published in three separate books between 1896 and 1914, the melodies are inspired by the wild landscape of Jämtland, that mountainous part of central Sweden near the Norwegian border west of Östersund, and the pine-clad island of Frösö in the middle of Lake Storsjön. Although Peterson-Berger spent much of his life in Stockholm, where he was a conductor, theatre director, and music critic for the influential daily, "Dagens Nyheter", he visited Jämtland at the age of 22 and kept coming back for the rest of his life, finding endless inspiration in the pristine Swedish countryside.
The series was revived as "AM Gold" in 1995, with a different cover design (early volumes had an artist's drawing of a pocket transistor radio, with later volumes bearing a "gold record" with the year or era spotlighted emblazoned over the top). The first 20 volumes were re-titled issues of volumes from the former "Super Hits" series with identical track lineups, while new volumes covering the mid- and late-1970s (including individual volumes for each of the years 1974-1979) were included.
The series was revived as "AM Gold" in 1995, with a different cover design (early volumes had an artist's drawing of a pocket transistor radio, with later volumes bearing a "gold record" with the year or era spotlighted emblazoned over the top). The first 20 volumes were re-titled issues of volumes from the former "Super Hits" series with identical track lineups, while new volumes covering the mid- and late-1970s (including individual volumes for each of the years 1974-1979) were included.