“It would be hard to overstate the sheer fun of listening to this aural sugar rush.”The Sunday Times (4/5)“Stromstad’s gift for locating innocent melody amid noise, and the methodical way he conveys apparent chaos, hints at a subversive talent.”The Independent (3/5)“Royally briliant”NME (8/10)“Ramshackle rock squeezed through a dreampop filter”Guardian Band of the Day“Losing something good for something better” is the notion of songs written in a lost decade between the sixties and the seventies, or maybe a forgotten year in the nineties. It is spontaneous indiepop, exquisitely constructed in the origo of the genre’s soul: Unforgettable earcatching tunes and the sound of popsychedelia, caught in a moment gone too soon.I was a King is Frode Strømstads unique voice and songwriting. Emil Nikolaisen (Serena-Maneesh) joins on bass and drums, and shares producer brains with Frode.