release date: Sep. 9, 2002
format: cd
[album rate: 3 / 5] [3,04]
producer: Rune Schjøtt, Henrik Balling, Nikolaj Nørlund, Lise Westzynthius
label: Auditorium - nationality: Denmark
Track highlights: 1. "Based on a True Story" - 2. "Heavy Dream" - 5. "Still Life in Sthlm" - 8. "Élite" - 10. "The Spectral Psalm"
Studio album debut by Lise Westzynthius following the disbandment of indie-pop band Luksus in 2001, after which the band's two primary songwriters and vocalists Westzynthius and Mikael Simpson initiated solo careers. Westzynthius shortly played with Nikolaj Nørlund in his project-band Rhonda Harris - and she takes a solid part of the album The Trouble with Rhonda Harris (2001). Simpson debuted in May 2002 with the self-released album Os to + lidt ro 2002.
Heavy Dream is a more quiet turn from what Luksus played, and it comes out as something quite original in an electronic art pop style with focus on singer / songwriter material - actually, much in the same way Simpson examined on his debut. Westzynthius sings in a light, delicate, spheric vocal, which doesn't vary much from track to track and over the span of the album, where it both proves fine and giving, although, it also appears with too little to offer on its own terms. At times she does sound a bit like Nina Persson from The Cardigans. Heavy Dream is nevertheless an approved debut, and Westzynthius is definitely an artist to look out for, although, the album stands a bit in the shadow of Simpson's stronger solo debut.
