It’s difficult to put Kristoffer Ragnstam simply. He is a Swedish rock musician who is at home in most parts of the world and within any musical genre, a drummer who was a born frontman. He’s a singer-songwriter in the most literal sense of the designation: he writes the songs he sings, but the similarities between guitar strumming self-absorption and Ragnstam’s extroverted observations that bound over the confines of genre end there. Labeled the Swedish Beck, the comparison is helpful in both musical eclecticism as well as the studio alchemy both musicians perform. Ragnstam specializes in an exuberant type of rock, with strains of everything he’s ever heard – musical and otherwise -- found like footnotes in his songs. On the strength of those solo-stringed demos, Ragnstam became the subject of a bidding war that culminated in his 2003 debut Panic Ride (Anderson Records). Recorded with the technically adept musicians who would become his backing band Electric 4, Ragnstam’s blend of ‘70s jangle-rock and ‘60s harmonies quickly earned him accolades. Ragnstam also earned the opening slot for new wave goddess Debbie Harry’s 2007 tour.
His latest album, Wrong Side Of The Room , was mixed by the renowned engineer Chris Brown (Ride, Radiohead, The Beatles, Supergrass).

Below you can listen to May I Admire Her, which where released as single from the album in the summer of 2008.