The OutSiders
Nov 27, 2020
5 minutes
Words: Holly Wright
Images:
Lars Ardarve
“I always found it weird to fit into a world that to me didn’t really make sense.”
Writing music for the misunderstood is not exactly new. Emo was built on the chagrin of the disaffected youth and The Smiths’ enduring How Soon Is Now? is still an anthem for social anxiety. But this is 2020 and Pain Of Salvation are not flannel-wearing, shoegazing misfits hooked on teenage angst, and their frontman has a very good reason for dedicating his latest album, Panther, to “the outsiders”.
Daniel Gildenlöw was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult. By his own admission he’s felt like an outsider since he was school age but getting older and having responsibilities – in particular three children, including one with Down’s Syndrome
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