it's winter. the northwest is engulfed by storms. so curl up, take a listen and watch the dripping icicles melt...
A singer from Norway who has me addicted and daydreaming listening to what she classifies as "windswept eccentric pop meets dusty jazz." Her first album "Little Things" was released in Norway in '04 and internationally in '05; Rykestrasse 68 has yet to be released internationally, but you can get the import online. I think it's the better of the two. Love her use of found sounds, like the typewriter in the song "the northwind."
HANNE HUKKELBERG
songs: cheater's armoury, ticking bomb, pynt, little girl, cast anchor
Even though their name suggests white sands, crashing waves, and broken seashells, you fall in just as deep while snowed-in by a fire holding a cup of cocoa. Maybe it's because you're lulled off to sleep envisioning swaying in a hammock between palms, your hair tangled and salty from the ocean spray, the breeze just enough to make the heat bearable. This Baltimore duo has me in love. (And if you think it's drab at first, give it time and let it sink in, i promise you will fall for them too.)
MÚM
I only have one mum album, the first one, released in 2002 (and a few scattered songs). I used to listen to the song "Green Grass of Tunnel" over and over again. I just recently decided to play the album the whole way through and love the calm strangeness of it- beautiful in an almost creepy sort of way. If you like Sigur Ros, you'll probably like Mum, though it's more spacey, more electronica. That aside, both are from Iceland and have the ability to take you to faraway lands where reality is no longer on your doorstep.
get it...
songs: green grass tunnel, we have a map of the plane
BEACH HOUSE
Even though their name suggests white sands, crashing waves, and broken seashells, you fall in just as deep while snowed-in by a fire holding a cup of cocoa. Maybe it's because you're lulled off to sleep envisioning swaying in a hammock between palms, your hair tangled and salty from the ocean spray, the breeze just enough to make the heat bearable. This Baltimore duo has me in love. (And if you think it's drab at first, give it time and let it sink in, i promise you will fall for them too.)songs: all the years, master of none, wedding bell, heart and lungs
