The media-shy Joakim Thåström has given a rare interview to music journalist Andres Lokko in Dagens ETC on the occasion of the new album "Somliga av oss", which was released last week.
The 67-year-old Thåström reflects, among other things, on the fact that he, whose career began as an angry punk rocker in a Stockholm suburb in the 1970s, is still active.
When we started Ebba Grön, it was... a joke. Impossible to even imagine back then, he says.
Thåström has always been regarded as a political artist, but objects in the interview that he is not really that. Ebba Grön was not that politically thought-out, he explains. And now he finds himself "somewhere else" in his writing.
If you bring up political stuff, you end up in a specific year and I prefer to avoid that and be more free in my way of writing. I want to work more with free associations and not write something that's forced.
Thåström also "backs away" when asked about the state of the world and says it's not "worth putting into words". In the end, he says:
It just gets stranger and stranger and worse and worse every day. It's like some kind of bizarre death circus that just keeps going on. The boundaries have shifted in a way that was never thought possible 10-15 years ago. I think it's tragic, and I'll stop there.
