release date: Apr. 27, 2011
format: cd
[album rate: 4 / 5] [3,94]
producer: Christian Walz
label: Universal Music - nationality: Sweden
Track highlights: 1. "Satan i gatan" (4 / 5) - 2. "Välkommen in" - 3. "Jag kommer" (5 / 5) (live) - 4. "Mitt hjärta blöder" - 5. "Vi kommer alltid ha Paris" - 7. "Alla mina låtar" - 8. "Snälla bli min" (4 / 5) (live) - 10. "Finns det en så finns det flera" (4 / 5)
3rd studio album by Veronica Maggio following three full years after Och vinnaren är... (Mar. 2008) is made with producer Christian Waltz, who is also credited as composer on all but one song (track #5). The album contains 11 tracks but on the only downside its total running time only clocks in at 35 minutes.
Satan i gatan was my first listening experience with Maggio's music. It's also her big Scandinavian breakthrough album that really put her on the charts all over Scandinavia thanks to her major single hit "Jag kommer" (a song with double meaning and often mistaken lyrics).
The album was well-received by critics and it became her first album to top the charts in Sweden. "Jag kommer" was released Feb. 2011 and was the first of three singles from the album, and that also was her first to top the singles chart list. The second single "Välkommen in" peaked at number #2, and the last single, "Mitt hjärta blöder" went as high as to number #5 - so all singles were top-5 single hits. The album also secured Maggio several prize nominations at the 2011 Swedish Grammis, at Rockbjörnen - where she won two prizes and also was handed three prizes at the award show, Gaffa-priset.
The album is a clear improvement from her previous releases with many fine songs instead of just two or three noteworthy tracks. The style is still in the same blue-eyed pop soul category but now with a stronger and tighter production and hints of synthpop, which distances her music from that of Lisa Ekdahl and Lisa Nilsson, and generally just makes it ever so much more digestible. I really enjoy this, and not just for a short period of time, Imho, this is simply Maggio's best album.
Highly recommended.
