Country: Iceland
Artist: Female solo artist
Career: debut
Language: English
Genre: Pop
What Portishead should have done after their second album, or even first. Modern pop record expertly realized (slow and brooding pop anyway, torch songs perhaps). Craft and inspiration combined. Modern pop means there’s an immaculate shine to the recordings, everything about the performances and arrangements is so perfectly balanced and right, that it’s not natural. You can’t believe any of these recordings are performances captured that ever really happened, not like a ‘60s pop album (or even ‘70s) with people standing next to each other in a cramped studio space bringing a track to life. All of that happens in the head of the producer/artist now. That’s modern pop for you. And this record at least does it right. The songs are all there, the artist arrives fully formed and sings them to life, the arrangements support the songs, it’s very 2000 but so well done it could become timeless. Yes, I think it could.
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