Måns Wieslander

Måns Wieslander, a Swedish singer and songwriter, has maintained an understated solo path in guitar pop—frequently compared to the Go-Betweens and Robyn Hitchcock—while serving as one third of the dream pop trio the Moonbabies and issuing electronic-folk albums as one half of the duo Campo Mondo. He also spent a brief period playing bass for the veteran Australian punk band the Saints on their 1997 reunion album Howling. As a teenager in rural Sweden he performed with assorted local groups, then relocated to Malmo, center of the Swedish pop world, and formed Elevator Adam with his bass-playing brother Anders Wieslander, drummer Conny Stade, and keyboardist-guitarist Johan Weitner. The band issued its lone album, Alcomoon, in 1995 on Payola, a Swedish arm of the German major BMG, before breaking up without a follow-up despite a modest local hit single and steady touring popularity. After his short Saints tenure, Wieslander joined his friend Ola Frick’s projects the Moonbabies and Campo Mondo and completed his first solo record, Twin Piloda, released in 2000 on Payola/BMG. Wallpaper appeared the next year as a cassette-only title on the Italian indie Best Kept Secret. The American independent Parasol, already successful with Swedish acts such as Club 8 and the Soundtrack of Our Lives, issued his third album, Yet, in December 2002.