£17.00
Labels
Cat's Claw Records
Johnny Be Good Records
Partysprenger Records
Punk Rock Radar
Detail
11 track Yellow Vinyl LP
Qualmbum is the fourth full-length album from Norwegian pop punk veterans Goldenboy.
Qualmbum is just as simple as it is complicated. Just as happy as it is sad. Most of the eleven tracks on the album were written after catastrophe hit lead singer and songwriter Torkel back in January 2022, when he and his wife lost their newborn son due to fatal hospital mistakes.
The first and the last song on the album, My Name is Dad and Qualm, reflect on the sorrow and the trauma you go through losing a child, while the song Please Hold describes the anger and aggression you deal with when there actually is someone to blame. Rated R and Para Toda la Vida are both hymns to Torkel’s wife, while Lately is an anthem attempting to look forward to something and someone, as Torkel a year ago became a father for the fourth time.
Other songs on the album were written a while before 2022, and deal with more everyday-9-to-5-normal-people-issues: Heartbreaks, hangovers, family, and the struggle between me, myself and I.
Tracklisting
A1 My Name is Dad
A2 Rated R
A3 Please Hold
A4 Late Night Buzz
A5 Empty Handed
A6 Lately
B1 Rain on my Parade
B2 In that Bottle
B3 You had me at Goodbye
B4 Para Toda la Vida
B5 Qualm
Listen / Download here