release date: Sep. 27, 2006
format: digital
[album rate: 3 / 5] [2,88]
producer: Andreas Dahlbäck & Anna Ternheim
label: Universal Music - nationality: Sweden
Track highlights: 2. "Girl Laying Down" - 3. "Today Is a Good Day" - 8. "Feels Like Sand" - 11. "Halfway to Fivepoints"
2nd studio album from Anna Ternheim released two years after the debut Somebody Outside. The album simply topped the Swedish albums chart, while the single "Girl Laying Down" ended up somewhat in the shadow at number #48 on the singles list. The album came out to a mixed reception in the Swedish music press.
Compared to an uneven debut with highlights, there isn't much innovation found on her follow-up in terms of style - perhaps it's slightly more of a coherent collection of songs of similar colour and style. However, I do miss the really fine compositions, and after several spins, I think most of all that Ternheim on this sounds like a Swedish version of Danish singer / songwriter Tina Dickow. And I don't think of that as a compliment. Both artists have large fan bases throughout all of Scandinavia, but I'm not one of them. I can't help but feel left with a feeling that it's mostly a poor copy of better, especially American artists, and really, if an artist insists on singing in English, it just has to be more convincing, as for instance Ane Brun much more successfully unfolds songs in English, because otherwise: why not sing in your mother tongue?! Perhaps, it would be a considerable improvement. With this, Ternheim fails to live up to the expectations that many had for a sequel.
Not recommended.
[ 👎Gaffa.dk 4 / 6 stars ]
