International Harvester - Sov Gott Rose-Marie (1968) (HQ)

Education purpose, all rights to respective owners. This is a vinyl rip.

Tracklist:
0:00 - Dies Irae
1:45 - I Villande Skogen
2:29 - There Is No Other Place
5:02 - The Runcorn Report On Western Progress
8:01 - Statsministern
8:23 - Ho Chi Minh
10:09 - It's Only Love
11:51 - Klockan Är Mycket Nu
15:17 - Ut Till Vänster
15:59 - Sommarlåten
18:46 - Sov Gott Rose-Marie
22:20 - I Mourn You
33:42 - How To Survive

(Sleep tight, Rose-Marie) is the 1968 debut album of International Harvester, the second incarnation of the Stockholm-based band Pärson Sound.
"The push towards a nationalistic sound came with the pseudo-dystopian mindset that prevailed in the Sweden of the 1960s, something that stood in dire contrast to the 'peace and love' ethos of hippy idealism. In the mid-60s, large parts of the inner city of Stockholm, the site of many houses and homes, were bulldozed to pave way for the new architectural wave of the future: towering skyscrapers, "glass and concrete". The album, with its telling opening track of Dies Irae played on horns, aims to reflect the loss of nature in the name of human advancement. Another track, "The Runcorn Report on Western Progress", was written by the group's leader, Bo Persson, and reflects a visit to Runcorn (a suburb of Liverpool), in the summer of 1951: it hadn't rained for three months, and the pollution had turned the sky yellow, blotting out the sun. To follow this theme, the group changed its name from Pärson Sound to "International Harvester", taken from the American company that manufactured agricultural machines. To quote Swedish freelance journalist Magnus Haglund, "It meant death. Death to western culture. Death to all kinds of borders." "