release date: Sep. 6, 2011
format: 2 cd (Deluxe)
[album rate: 4 / 5] [3,86]
producer: Tobias Fröberg
label: Balloon Ranger Recordings - nationality: Norway
Track highlights: CD 1. 1. "These Days" (4 / 5) - 2. "Words" - 4. "Do You Remember" (4 / 5) (live at KCRW) - 6. "Lifeline" - 7. "One" - 9. "Oh Love" - 10. "Undertow" - - CD 2. *2. "Take It Slow" - *5. "Du gråter så store tåra (English Version)" - *7. "Another World"
5th studio album by Ane Brun following the release of Sketches (Sep. 2008), which presents her acoustic demo versions of her most recent studio album Changing of the Seasons (Mar. 2008). This new album is often mentioned as her sixth studio album - but that's only when adding the demo version album to the list, which I find misleading. She has thus been on a 3½ years hiatus, which also produced the live album Live at Stockholm Concert Hall (2009). The album was released as a standard CD issue containing ten songs and as a 2 CD Deluxe edition with a bonus cd of eight tracks including three covers.
Ane Brun continues to impress, both as a songwriter, composer, and as a sublime vocalist. This new album is her third to top the albums chart in Norway, which it replicated in Sweden - a first accomplishment for a Norwegian artist.
It All Starts with One is yet another fine album from one of the finest voices in Scandinavia. She never just seems satisfied as an artist but always comes up with new stylistic variations, and here she both proves her skills with emotional ballads and uptempo art pop but really no matter what style she excels in there's always width, amplitude and an enormous depth, which makes it all the more likeable.
Highly recommended.
[ allmusic.com 3,5 / 5, 👍Mojo, The Independent 4 / 5, 👎PopMatters 2,5 / 5 stars ]
