Andres Lokko - 1999-2009

Facts How do you describe Andres Lokko? It depends on which Andres Lokko you mean. The most influential Swedish music journalist of the modern era? The culture journalist? The satirist and humorist from Killinggänget? The politically engaged columnist? The intellectual ironist of the nineties? Wasn't he the editor in chief of the magazine Pop? (Or chief ideologue?) The writer who made music criticism his platform to chase, over two decades, the time that fled in a serial about a broken heart that refused to heal? Or the now-grown playwright, correspondent, critic and Guldbagge-nominated screenwriter whose lifelong Anglophilia eventually led him to leave Sweden for his beloved London? A selection of Andres Lokko's texts for newspapers and magazines was gathered in 2010 in two volumes totaling 1,637 pages. These are the ones presented here again, in the form of two equally hefty paperback editions: Andres 1989-1998 and Lokko 1999-2009. "It sings about the pages when Lokko paints the picture of sit