release date: Sep. 6, 2010
format: digital
[album rate: 2,5 / 5] [2,25]
producer: Lars Skjærbæk
label: Bear Records - nationality: Denmark
Studio debut album by Danish vocalist and songwriter Signe Svendsen. After having worked as backing vocalist for several Danish acts, still touring with singer / songwriter Niels Hausgaard, and after a short stint as one-third of the pop-trio Rollo & King (a duo expanded to a trio with Svendsen aboard and then reduced again after her leave), she now releases her own material.
It just seems like this album is more of a manifest, a necessity to prove her own worth, rather than the result of having a huge back catalogue of songs to bring forth. Her fine melancholic and fragile singing voice, which appears grounded with a portion of latin traditional influence, is simply not enough to make the debut a memorable release. As a first draft, it mostly appears without original conviction.
[ Gaffa.dk 4 / 5, Berlingske 3 / 6 stars ]
