THE HOUSE: Beyoncé in an earlier moment than the house she sings about in this week’s song. Photo: Klaudia Lech / VG
This week’s tunes take the journey from diamond piercings to foreign words that rhyme with mortgage. Indeed, Lana del Rey doesn’t try Americana in between either.
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Beyoncé – «My House»
When Beyoncé opened her world tour in Stockholm in May, it affected the GDP of all of Sweden. Such global mechanisms allow her to drop this subtitle song from the tour documentary. Or, tune and tune. More of an intricate collection of song pieces chiseled together by song alchemist Knowles. Which therefore makes perfect sense. The essence is something about having 44 carat diamond piercings in your nipples, while drinking until you drop. It would of course have been extra fun if it was a cover of Shaman Durek.
Taylor Swift – «You’re Losing Me»
Speaking of Queen B.: Taylor Swift was of course at the world premiere of the documentary in London yesterday. And at the same time releases this previously only downloadable song to celebrate that she rules on Spotify in any case. For fans, it is an outgrowth of details from the breakup with Joe Alwyn earlier this year. Those who are not as interested in that particular side of Swift will have to make do with a somewhat forgettable b-side with compressed production. However, the last minute saves quite a lot.
Lana del Rey – «Take me home, Country Roads»
Speaking of Spotify lists. Lana Del Rey is in tenth place on the global list Taylor Swift tops. And speaking of touring, she was just in West Virginia’s capital of Charleston. So therefore: John Denver’s so-called immortal 1971 classic: Interpreted by Lana Del Rey, a piano and tons of reverb. Surprisingly heartfelt and beautiful. Would gladly take a whole album of this.
ROAD: Lana del Rey interprets John Denver. Who is responsible for the Norwegian translation of Stein Ingebrigtsen? Photo: PROMO/UNIVERSAL
Capture – “Along the Street”
At the same time as the eighties great Dumdum Boys announce a summer tour, the greats of the future come with a song with a title close to Dumdum. Loudly noisy with a sound of its own. Produced just so wrongly that the vocals often become part of the total and a little difficult to try the practice sing-along on. There will be more atmosphere than actually here. But what an atmosphere.
Sklitakling – «Color Line»
Behind this lovely band name hides a quintet capable of maximizing the positive energy of the Bergen dialect. Think the aggression of Razika’s “Faen ta deg” in the face of, for example, Turbonegro’s “Ass Cobra”, but with hotter guitar and heavy activist features. The self-titled album debut is 25 energetic minutes about dogs, double standards, cover-up abuse and perfect little lines like “I’m a bon vivant, I have a store full of pawn”.
Goofy Geese – «Mother»
More Bergen: This duo makes soulful dream pop, so deeply beautiful that it may seem parodic to some. It is probably from there that the most disarming band name since Daft Punk has appeared. Think Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood if they had spent more time with Stina Nordenstam and Sondre Lerche. Or for that matter, don’t. It’s an incredibly strange thing to think about.
SKLITAKLING: Five Bergens with a stance on something completely different from fire. Photo: PAOLO CIPRIANI/PROMO
Biosphere – «Delta Function»
Not everything makes immediate sense on Geir Jenssen’s nineteenth album. It starts mildly promising, but seems to become more interested in experimental use of organ about halfway through. This exercise with a forward-leaning drum machine and opposing synth strings is, on the other hand, a jubilant example of how what at first appears as repetition and repetitions can still have a greater function at bottom.
Naaljos Ljom – «The Tailor’s Song»
Repetition and repetition are also some of the features of this unlikely combo of traditional Norwegian folk music and modern, global electronics. The duo with the lovely name is droning, in a way that those who have caught “Trollstemt”, the new NRK series about Norwegian folk music, will really appreciate. And at the same time so electronically squeaky that both Biosphere , Deathprod and not least Valdres-slåtten’s father, Jørn Hilme (1778-1854), can come up with and listen and desk dance excitedly.
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Published: 02.12.23 at 15:44
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