Amandine are four Swedish guys who used to call themselves Wichita Lineman after the Glen Campbell tune. That song’s lilting country-pop sound gives a good indication of what Amandine are after on their debut album: strummed acoustic guitars, horn-and-string sweetening, the occasional dash of creamy lap steel. As sounds go, This Is Where Our Hearts Collide makes for fine wallpaper. But unlike “Wichita Lineman,” in which Campbell’s vocal establishes some drama for the lush sonics to play against, nothing much else happens here. Products of cheap recording gear, the songs’ arrangements are, it seems, expected to serve as their own reward. They don’t, really: singer Olof Gidlof tackles big topics like the comfort of home and the disappointments of family, but he sings as if he were delivering the news that, yep, it’s gonna be cold in Sweden today.

Amandine + Fruit Bats + Sam Jayne | April 30 | T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline St, Cambridge | 617.492.BEAR

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Amandine: //www.amandinemusic.com/

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