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Frokedal releases her debut LP, Hold On Dreamer, on Propeller Records in the UK.Full article:
Review by Johnny Black - first appeared in Hi Fi News
Anne Lise Frokedal is another Norwegian well worth your attention. Her solo debut album starts off with W.O.Y., which sounds like early Velvet Underground with modal guitar embellishments from Robert Fripp, and then gets even better. Her voice is slight and pretty but somehow also sounds urgent and emotional, and her lyrics, essentially cameos of fascinating characters, work remarkably well. Best of all, on the rapturously swirling Kid, she sounds like she doesn’t care if she ever has a hit record just as long as she can go on affecting listeners by making her own distinctively different music. I can’t think of a contemporary British songstress half as good.
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Anne Lise Frokedal is another Norwegian well worth your attention. Her solo debut album starts off with W.O.Y., which sounds like early Velvet Underground with modal guitar embellishments from Robert Fripp, and then gets even better. Her voice is slight and pretty but somehow also sounds urgent and emotional, and her lyrics, essentially cameos of fascinating characters, work remarkably well. Best of all, on the rapturously swirling Kid, she sounds like she doesn’t care if she ever has a hit record just as long as she can go on affecting listeners by making her own distinctively different music. I can’t think of a contemporary British songstress half as good.