Founded by Stockholm based artists Marcus Harrling and Per Nystr?m, Diagnos who both have long time backgrounds in the Swedish independent music scene in amongst others The Concretes, Monster, Mackaper and Sons of Cyrus. Harrling first approached Nystr?m with the idea of Diagnos as a project to develop soundtracks to super 8 travel films he had shot. The two then began to improvise further, with film and literature inspiration in the foreground and their music interpretations of those influences. The result is an emotive record, varied between instrumental and vocal numbers, poetic, droney and folky; ranging anywhere from early Sonic Youth in texture and delivery to 70's Swedish Prog in vein of Arbete och Fritid. Other times you can be hypnotized into the minimalists worlds of Terry Riley and Philip Glass, as repetition and monotony are key elements in their music and employed through the loops of guitars, keyboards and vintage drum machines their songs are built upo
