‘Music For Late Nights’ is an amazing, delightful oddity — a best-of compilation, a new album, and twelve rework experiments, all at once.
“How would our very first released song, ‘You Are The Kind’, sound today, 33 years later?” That question kicked off the ‘Late Nights’ series. Twelve versions and four EPs later, the new album ‘Music For Late Nights’ is out on July 25th.
The album includes two completely re-recorded ’90s classics (the aforementioned ‘You Are The Kind’ and 1995’s smash ‘Don’t Say You Love Me’), five tracks from ‘Kristina’ (2016), ‘The Swedish Winter’ from ‘Stockholm’ (2019), and four tracks from ‘Diary’ (2024).
The album showcases songwriting that has remained remarkably consistent over three decades — songs that shine in their polished, slightly darker late nights versions. Guests include Julia Lannerheim (Acid House Kings), Andreas Jonsson (Alpaca Sports), and Cristina Quesada.
On one hand, ‘Music For Late Nights’ is an oddity — a parenthesis in the RSB catalogue. On the other, it may be the band’s most coherent and best album yet, defining what melody-driven synthpop sounds like in 2025.
