SORT SOL SNAKECHARMER ALBUM MERCURY, UNIVERSAL RELEASE: SEPTEMBER 3, 2001 REVIEW: OCTOBER 16, 2001

I'm too young to have experienced Sort Sol in their heyday, but these Danes are well renowned alternative veterans in their home country. "Snakecharmer", their first album in five years, shows a band that seems to have aged with grace and dignity. Sort Sol now produce a kind of epic rock, at it's best resembling a very much slicker The Bad Seeds, but sometimes resorting to a bombastic pretentiousness that rather echoes of - uurghhh... - Simple Minds.
Sort Sol are at their best in heartfelt numbers like "Nights in White Satin" and the intriguing "Elia Rising", but most of all, they are, much like Nick Cave, an assuring evidence that even kings of eighties self-destruction can go into middle age without looking silly.

KRISTOFFER NOHDEN

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