I'd waited several years for Annika Norlin and her bandmates to finally make their way to Germany and yet I really didn't know what to expect. Or rather, the show made me realize what I had been expecting by the surprises it gave me. I guess it was Annika's performance as a singer that stood out most -- she came across as a very strong and powerful storyteller, not as the tender or vulnerable songwriter some of her work portrays her to be. I'm not taking the cliché (and sexist) perspective here that "female songwriters have to be [...]
01. Welcome To Stalingrad 02. One Kiss 03. Click, Click 04. Elisabeth By The Piano 05. Bang, Bang (Echo In Warsaw) 06. Unknown Pleasures (feat. Hanna Lovisa) 07. Last Year In Marienbad 08. A Wedding In June (feat. Andreas Mattson) 09. Dancing Shoes 10. The Stairs Of The House That Haunted This Town (Jenny, Jenny, Jenny) 11. Dungeons And Dragons 12. I Love You Annie www.myspace.com/monttmardie
Tracklist 1. I Wonder Who Is Like This One (3:01) 2. 2008 (4:03) 3. Overall (2:47) 4. Lund (3:14) 5. X Telling Me About The Loss Of Something Dear At Age 16 (3:29) 6. Middle Class (3:52) 7. Parenting Never Ends (3:30) 8. Anna (3:09) 9. 25 Days (4:03) 10. Sancho Panza (1:48) [...]
------------------------------ -- 10. Dr. Dog - Fate For their fifth album, Fate , Dr. Dog intentionally granted high expectations months before the release. Calling it the album that "they were destined to make", it should make the album's title a rather obvious one. However, considering that last year's We All Belong was easily one of the best indie-rock releases of the year, improving upon a release that is widely considered their best may be a daunting task. For a [...]
( 1 votes, average: 4 out of 5) Loading ... Ogni tanto sentiamo bisogno di mettere a posto le cose per star meglio. Non dico di sistemare la nostra esistenza, ma solo di riordinare le vecchie cianfrusaglie finite in soffitta o in qualche stanzino disordinato. Tutto ciò accade probabilmente per l'istinto di controbilanciare il nostro disordine interiore con la controparte fisica di tutto ciò che conserviamo. Allora ecco che togliamo via [...]
Finally Annika Norlin has released her second album as Hello Saferide . For a while we almost died of Norlin abstinence, didn't we? But hey, the medicine for this cold season is here. The album consists of 12 songs with a little help from Andreas Mattson ( Popsicle ) and the beloved Maia Hirasawa , among others. Bed for success? Yeah. Rewind, we should call it 12 collections of short stories straightly based on Norlin's interior "I have trouble sleeping but I don't recall I had while in your womb" , track 7, [...]
Driving to New York in a van with my friends after the Pitchfork festival , a song from Hello Saferide 's ridiculously slept-on Introducing... came up on my wife's iPod. At the wheel was a fellow music critic, who asked what the song was, mentioned that he liked it, and said it reminded him of country. Now, at first blush, a Swedish indie-pop singer/songwriter might not appear to have much in common with Taylor Swift or Toby Keith, let alone [...]
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