Lebensraum! (German for Living Space) is the fourth studio album by Swedish artist Jonathan Johansson, released on 18 March 2015 by S:t C and Sony Music Sweden. The album charted at number 22 on the Swedish Albums Chart.
Critical reception
Lebensraum! received generally positive reviews from Swedish music critics. The Swedish website, Kritiker, which assigns a normalised rating out of 5.0 to reviews from mainstream critics across the country, gave the album an average score of 4.1, based on 16 reviews. Per Magnusson of Aftonbladet highlighted "Ny / snö" as the best track on the record, and opined that on "Lebensraum!", "Jonathan Johansson dares – and wins". Anders Nunstedt of Expressen considered the album's theme to be politics, and that the "music on it is densely packed with words, smartly crafted and sharply aimed at neo-fascism and narrow-mindedness in society. An album as important as it is beautiful".
Track listing All music written by Jonathan Johansson and Johan Eckeborn, except track 4, written by David Lindell and track 6, written by Samuel Starck. All lyrics written by Jonathan Johansson.
Personnel Jonathan Johansson – music, lyrics, vocals, guitar, bass, drums, keyboards, synthesizer Johan Eckeborn – music, production Samuel Starck – music, piano David Lindell – music, bass, double bass David Lillberg – technician, piano, sampler, synthesizer Leo Svensson – cello Daniel Kurba – organ Stefan Olsson - acoustic guitar Henrik Edenhed – mixing Tom Coyne – mastering Rikkard Häggbom – photography Tobias Häggbom – artwork Charts Chart (2015) Peakposition
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