Loney Dear is the recording name for multi-instrumentalist and Swedish home-recording phenom Emil Svanangen. "Dear John" is an album of contrasts. It will cozy up to you through the bleakest of winters and be your shade in the blistering summer sun. 　　 　　 　　“Dear John” is Loney Dear’s best album-length work although it took awhile to realize it. Track after track offers its own redemption for life’s inner struggles. With each replay, these little bangs are born anew and the Loney Dear universe expands just a teensy-weensy bit more. Emil Svanangen’s sings falsetto of lives worth living, even if his subjects sometimes don’t believe it. Listener—and either current or future Loney Dear fan—the ball is now in your court. It is up to you to take Dear John in and give its eleven precious little lonelies a loving new home.