Nikola Sarcevic

Nikola Sarcevic wants to defy your expectations. And as his second solo effort Roll Roll And Flee asserts, this musician will not be painted in a corner. A man with two distinct musical hats, Sarcevic adroitly balances his responsibilities as the frontman for world renowned Swedish punk band Millencolin with his ever-developing role as a free-thinking singer/songwriter.
Like its predecessor, Roll Roll And Flee was recorded with the help of multi-instrumentalist Henrik Wind and Fredrik Sandsten, drummer for The Soundtrack of Our Lives at Svenska Grammofon Studion near his home in Gothenburg. This time out, however, Kalle Gustafsson Jerneholm who doubles as the bassist in TSOOL and owns the facility produced and engineered, helping to achieve an effort that is richer with sounds than the debut.

Yet for all its differences, the new disc was captured on tape with the spontaneity similar to its precursor (Lock-Sport-Krock). Im not keen on rehearsing the songs over and over, Sarcevic asserts. I want my solo albums to be freer; where the songs develop in the studio. Believe it or not, a lot of these songs have similar chord patterns as Bad Religion songs, Nikola confesses, But I'm into a lot of Beatles and Dylan and Simon & Garfunkel things from the 1960s. And thats the kind of sound that I wanted to achieve.
Be it the swooning, horn-fostered classic rock vibe of Let Me In, the alluring, classic pop-inspired Soul For Sale, or the brilliantly melodic ballad Love Is Trouble, Sarcevic emotes in a previously unheard manner on Roll Roll And Flee. Maybe half of the songs have an edge, he says. Its a little bit harder than Lock-Sport-Krock. Of course you want to make every album different. And maybe I felt that after the first album, it almost seemed too sparse.
The new album Roll Roll And Flee will be released on Burning Heart Records on the 23rd of October 2006.