Gothenburg, Sweden · pop · singer-songwriter

Joel Alme

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Grand, string-lined Swedish pop delivered in a croon — the kind of songwriting that treats a chorus as a place to put everything.

Joel Alme is a Swedish singer and songwriter from Gothenburg who sings in English in a low, deliberate croon. His records lean on orchestral pop arrangements — strings, piano and reverb-heavy production — set against melodies with a clear debt to mid-century pop balladry, and his songwriting tends toward the romantic and slightly theatrical rather than the conversational. He has released a series of albums under his own name since the late 2000s, working within a Swedish pop tradition that treats big, carefully arranged choruses as the point of the exercise.

popsinger-songwriter