Freedom Stay Free!

One of the most noticed and cherished rock records in 2021 was the debut album from Freedom, the Swedish band who, with their sunny working-class rock, succeeded in the art of sounding completely full-fledged and complete at once. This is the difficult second album.

The reference points are many (Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers are just two of the many names that tend to come up), but no one else sounds like Freedom.