Review: Sigrid’s New EP ‘The Hype’ Explores Fresh Styles and Musical Range

NEW EP: Sigrid – here photographed in Oslo Spektrum in 2022 – shows her range on her four fresh songs. Photo: Helge Mikalsen / VG

Sigrid exhibits new styles on a mini release that should have been further sharpened.

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Few Norwegian artists know more about the hype and its machinery than Sigrid Raabe. The 27-year-old from Ålesund has, after all, broken through in Great Britain, the island kingdom where music journalists have perfected the art of building artist careers, only to crush them as brutally as possible the second the momentum starts to crack.

When Sigrid now releases four songs under the title “The Hype EP”, it is in other words self-perceived experiences at the bottom of the project – at the same time that a fox is more than noticeable behind the ear.

The four songs are quite different from each other – at least on paper. The title track is bubbly Sigrid-pop at its best and least frisky, and the phrase “you only call me when I’ve done something extraordinary” has grown from clumsy to touching in the space of a couple of months.

Sigrid Solbakk Rabe, here from May 2022. Photo: Hanna Kristin Hjardar / VG

The 80s steamy “Borderline” is even better. Here, Sigrid The 1975 touches on demonstratively shameless patchwork pop.

At the other end of the scale we find the Americana experiment “Ghost”, which reveals new depths in Sigrid’s stylistic range. “Wanted It to Be You” is the release’s least essential track – here New Radicals’ “You Only Get What You Give” is lifted rather openly at the entrance to the chorus, without anything to get excited about in any direction.

The problem with “The Hype EP” is that the songs – despite all the obvious distinctions between them – behave so alike melodically. Whether it’s a frivolous festival atmosphere, autumnal folk seriousness or other impulses that are pursued in the soundscape, it means fine. little when all the melody lines and chord sequences have thought of exactly the same place.

The result is a punctuated dose of well-groomed and competent pop music which unfortunately manages to veer into the predictable during its measured 13 minutes.

BEST SONG: «Borderline»

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Published: 27.10.23 at 12:54 p.m

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