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Album Name: The Comfort ZoneArtist: Laura Comfort
Year/Label: 2010 / Comfort Zone Music
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Review by Anna Maria Stjärnell
Laura Comfort’s debut has a suitable title; it really is comforting, calming experience in the Dido vein.
Opener Take a Chance advises to take opportunities when they are presented. Her vocal is utterly gorgeous here.
So So sweet lives up to it title as relief allows her lovely voice to sweep amid a sensuous melody with a pop flavor.
Mountain is a somewhat suggestive song that layers the vocal and the tune is lovely. It has a danceable beat that sounds cool.
It’s Always Love is a rhythmic yet sensitive song that she easily handles. It’s one of the best tracks here.
It’s a very nice debut in all.
Track Listing
1. Take a chance
2. Was it me?
3. So so sweet
4. I realize
5. Mountain
6. What is it to be
7. Can’t get enough
8. Addicted
9. It’s always love
10. Bye bye baby
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Album Name: Cardiac Malformations
Artist: Thus:Owls
Year/Label: 2010 / Hoob Records
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Review by Anna Maria Stjärnell
Thus:Owls have a weird name, and a sound to match on this starling debut recording. It has something of the Tiny’s classicism tempered by Björk’s restless spirit.
Singer Erika Alexandersson has a terrific, if untamable voice and she uses it well.
Opener Yellow Desert sees her reach untold heights to a good backdrop that’s ever shifting. Her delivery has a little of Karin Dreijer Andersson’s strangeness.
Climbing the Fjelds of Norway has a playful; intriguing sound that suits the song well. Alexandersson’s vocals sound just beautiful here.
The Sun is Burning Our Skin is a ballad that allows the band’s sensitive side to take over. The vocal is set against a soft and supple backing.
A Volcano in My Chest is a little bit dissonant at times but has a good tune to go along with it. Alexandersson wails in a P.J Harvey fashion and it’s fun to hear.
This debut should hopefully win them many fans.
Track Listing
1. Yellow Desert
2. Eagles Coming In
3. Climbing The Fjelds Of Norway
4. Sometimes
5. The Sun Is Burning Our Skin
6. When She Arrived
7. Let Your Blood Run
8. My Thoughts Ain’t Lovely
9. A Volcano In My Chest
10. You Arose To The Gods
11. The Atlantic
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