Anna Ternheim - Leaving on a mayday

It's an album from 2008 but today Verve also released it. I think because of this label Anna Ternheim's reputation will grow immediately. She's a Norwegian singer-songwriter, with a nice voice and a cool singer-songwriter style which leads us out to pop/rock: her first album, Somebody outside was released in 2004, on which we can hear the single Shoreline and To be gone which also got a place on an other album Halfway to fivepoints / Separation Road.

Her newest, Leaving on a mayday is a little bit more serious mix of songs than the earlier records. Starting with the harder What have I done, the album gets a strong inception. The arrangement also got more complex, by the strings, newer instrumental solutions and the structured vocals. For example in Terrified the deep and reverbed drums and the nice string melody make an oppisitional atmosphere which often achieve an effective result in any kind of music. The role of strings is emphasized on this album, they can be sane, beautiful and can have a faintly agressive sound.

Let it rain leads us back to the world of What have I done with its slightly monotonical and deeper base pattern to reach My heart still beats for you, which is the most silent song on the album, creating its middle point. Later, one of my favourites No, I don't remember is from that mentioned style, but we also meet Summer rain, a slow song based on a chorus, and for example, Losing you which is rather indie pop than singer-songwriter. But no one wants to set up limits for this music, it's interesting to hear these things which sometimes steps on the frontier of a genre.

Anna Ternheim also released an ep in the topic of Sinatra, on which she perform five songs by him in a very, very different way. I'm looking forward to her next projects.

No, I don't remember:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmngmHSHoS4

Black Sunday afternoon:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0hd0B5ZvY4

What have I done:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8QKKlmwlOs

Anna Ternheim's website:
http://www.annaternheim.com/

Anna on Verve:
http://www.vervemusicgroup.com/artist/music/detail.aspx?pid=12065&aid=7351