Behind the Music by Soundtrack of Our Lives

Behind the Music, the third album from Gothenburg's the Soundtrack of Our Lives, first landed in Europe in February 2001 and then crept out across the rest of the world over the next two years, turning into the Swedish band's breakthrough abroad. Frontman Ebbot Lundberg and company raid vintage rock and punk for everything worth stealing: Stones swagger, Stooges bite and a thick cloud of psychedelia, all wrapped in the mystical imagery the band loves.

Noel Gallagher was smitten enough to call it the best album of the past six years and took them out on Oasis's UK and European tour in 2002, and it picked up a Grammy nomination for Best Alternative Album in 2003. The cover is worth a look too: alginate casts of all six members' faces, made by the Swedish artists Per Svensson and Anna Strid. "Infra Riot" is the song that reached the countdowns.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.