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It's been such a long time since the last Robin Bengtsson's video "Another lover's gone" and today Robin presents new one for his latest awesome single "Cross the Universe". This is definitely new Robin, much more mature, serious and standing on his own path outside of Idol-bubble.

Robin Bengtsson (3rd place of Idol-2008 - Anna Bergendahl, Kevin Borg, Alice Svensson) is finally back with a new and very good single "Cross the Universe".
After his first post-Idol attempt "Another Lover's Gone" released back in 2009 Robin never was away presenting his acoustic covers and being involved earlier this year in Byz's single "Tjena, Tjena, Tjena".
But now it's time for Robin's own single which was co-written by him with Linnea Debb, Joy Debb and Robin Stjernberg. Linnea and Joy were involved in Ulrik Munther's platinum single "Soldiers" and "Cross the Universe" feels on the one hand like a logical progression of "Another Lover's Gone" and on the other hand it sounds like a more mature version of "Soldiers" starting with just a singer's voice and guitar in a simple sing-a-long combination and rushing on you with a massive beat of the chorus.
Great pop-comeback which I hope won't be followed by another releasing break.

It was pretty silent around ex-participant of popular TV-show Made In Sweden Kim Fransson since he has broken up with producers accusing them of stopping collaboration and no activity and contacts regarding his career. Kim has started quite successfuly releasing #1 single "3 Floors Down" and well charted album but after the conflict audience didn't see and hear a lot of him.
However Kim was signed by Held Management - the same company that works with Anders Fernette, The Poodles and Lillasyster and earlier this year was singing backing vocals behind Anders Fernette at Melodifestivalen. Talking about Kim's own stuff, last year he has recorded duo "Long Long Night" with ex-Idol Robin Bengtsson and few other lovely produced pop-rock songs that we surprisingly like more than everything else on his debut album (you can listen to them on Kim's site).
But the track that has caught our attention mostly was "Worn Out Sail" - huge emotional pop-ballad produced by Peter "Bassflow" Boström starting very softly almost like lulluby and getting big stadium rock-feeling in chorus with Kim's husky voice though all hints at rock-sound are replaced with amazing synth-arrangement reminding a bit Roxette's single-version of "Speak To Me" that Peter worked with. We really hope that this track will bring Kim back to the radio and wide audience as it seems like he has much more to give in future.