release date: Feb. 18, 2008
format: cd
[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,45]
producer: Mikkel Damgaard
label: A:larm Music - nationality: Denmark
Track highlights: 1. "Shake Shake" - 3. "Suzuki" - 4. "Ligesom Iggy Pop" - 5. "I Centreville" - 6. "Bunny Blue" - 10. "I min trommerum"
2nd and final solo album by Henrik Hall is an even stronger solo release than his debut from 2006. Alas, this was completely overlooked despite of fine reviews. Hall sings in Danish but the music has a destinct sound of art pop and synthpop with elements of glam rock. It doesn't sound like anything else on the Danish scene, which perhaps made it too strange. Once again, the music is highly depending on the skills of producer Mikkel Damgaard, who is also credited for arranging the music with Hall and for handling keyboards and synths. Both Thomas Risell on bass and Morten Woods on guitars and backing vocals took part in Hall's debut album and they reappear on this. Lars Skærbæk handles electric guitars, Johan Lei Gellett plays drums, and Frank Ziyanak sings backing vocals. Together, the six supporting musicians are credited as Himmelstormerne. The sound is a fine dynamic combination of several styles and in the end this is one of the best Danish albums in 2008. Unfortunately, the album was the last to feature Henrik Hall. Love Shop was reformed as a duo in 2009 after some memorial live concerts held in tribute of the band's guitarist Hilmer Hassig, who had been killed as the result of a drive-by car accident in late 2008. Jens Unmack and Henrik Hall would constitute the new Love Shop incarnation until the untimely death of Henrik Hall in Jan. 2011.
Recommended.
