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Songs From the Second Floor wasn't quite like anything you'd ever seen: a largely wordless, abstract tragi-comedy with a huge cast, massive trompe l'oeil sets built at Andersson's own Stockholm production complex, Studio 24, and with a sense of humour that ran from the morose to the downright apocalyptic.
That said, the disparity between what was happening on stage – or, rather, what wasn't happening, unless you count watching black-clad, motionless figures wearing expressions that run the emotional gamut from morose to I-was-forced-here-at-gunpoint an unmissable visual feast – and what came out of the speakers held the audience rapt.
IGN noted that the style of the music tracks ranged from "hauntingly morose to almost jovially up-tempo".
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