release date: Feb. 3, 2014
format: digital
[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,52]
producer: Kåre Christoffer Vestrheim
label: Propeller Recordings - nationality: Norway
Track highlights: 1. "Lover Where Do You Live?" - 2. "Since Last Wednesday" - 3. "Leaving No Traces" - 5. "My Only Crime" - 6. "I, the Hand Grenade" - 9. "The Man on the Ferry"
2nd studio album by Norwegian indie pop and indietronica band Highasakite.
After the debut All That Floats Will Rain (2012), where the original duo of lead vocalist Ingrid Helene Håvik and drummer and percussionist Trond Bersu had been expanded to a trio with keyboardist Øystein Skar has now been expanded with another two band members: Marte Eberson, who like Skar, is credited for playing synthesizers and Kristoffer Lo on guitar, dulcimer and bass.
The album was met by national acclaim, the band was awarded "Pop Group of the Year Award" at the Norwegian Spellemannprisen (equivalent of the Grammy Award) and Håvik was awarded the prize as "Composer of the Year", and the album spent more than 100 weeks as #1 on the albums chart list. So, Highasakite, really was the biggest act in Norway in 2016.
With its dreamy harmonies and ethereal lightness, Silent Treatment is a nice colourful experience, which reminds me somewhat of other Scandinavian acts like Anna Ternheim meets Oh Land meets Lykke Li with bits of Veronica Maggio. Not at all a bad combo, though, the shelf is mighty crowded.
