Extreme includes the most conventionally catchy, pop melodies of Molly Nilsson’s career to date—but also from the fact that essentially, the album sounds like it was recorded in the early-to-mid 1980s.

At this point, the ‘80s revival and nostalgia seems to be as unstoppable as it is ubiquitous, and the warm, lush, embracing synth tones and beefy MTV guitars all over Extreme have a kind of synth-pop-meets-Air Supply/REO Speedwagon/Toto quality that 40 years ago would probably have seemed irremediably staid and thirtysomething-ish, but that now seems pretty cool.

Vinyl, LP, Colour

Tracklist:
Extreme
A1 Absolute Power
A2 Earth Girls
A3 Fearless Like A Child
A4 Kids Today
A5 Intermezzo: X - The Wheel Of Fortune
B1 Sweet Smell Of Success
B2 Obnoxiously Talented
B3 Avoid Heaven
B4 Take Me To Your Leader
B5 They Will Pay
B6 Pompeii