Loney, Dear - Saturday Waits

What this video is

Released in 2007 as part of Loney, Dear's Sub Pop debut Loney, Noir, 'Saturday Waits' arrived at the height of MP3 blog culture's influence on independent music discovery. Emil Svanängen, a Swedish multi-instrumentalist and home-recording artist from Jönköping, had self-released three CD-Rs before Sub Pop signed him in 2006 — a trajectory emblematic of the era's democratized music distribution. The video, directed…

Why it matters

Represents the 2007 Scandinavian chamber pop / indie folk moment at its most refined — home-recording authenticity elevated to Sub Pop-backed international distribution. Alongside contemporaries like José González and Peter Bjorn & John (also Nilsson collaborators), this video and song exemplify…

The director

Andreas Nilsson is a Swedish director and classically trained painter and sculptor based in Malmö, Sweden. He entered directing via set design and art direction in the music industry. He is widely known for music videos including work for The Knife, Fever…