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| Paws of a Bear |
Cases in point:
Burning yourself whilst cooking breakfast is totally metal.
Watching your daughter's hockey team play Sharks and Minnows is totally metal.
So, naturally, reviewing Swedish/Americana singer/songwriters is totally metal.
This is one of the things that still routinely confuses me about what I do and the vinyl column. Glacially Musical is 95% totally metal, or more, but for some reason, my vinyl submissions are not metal more often than not.
What's nice about that is my readers get to see a bigger peak inside what I enjoy and other musical items that might not flow down their streams.
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| Sofia Talvik |
In that case, the vinyl columns are like the original days of Glacially Musical when it wasn't a heavy metal blog, but a blog based on my personal musical journey....then the industry came calling.
It's nice to return to the olden days here and there.
So, today's subject is Ms. Talvik. She hails from Sweden, the most metal of all of the countries in Scandinavia. Sorry Norway!
Her career began in earnest circa 2005 when she self released her debut LP, Blue Moon.
A quick glance through the titles in her discography, The Owls Are Not What They Seem sticks out. and makes me curious to know what they are in reality....oh well.
Moving on.
How can an artist be Swedish and recording Americana? I suppose it something like Yola who's an African-English singing American Country music...
It doesn't really make sense, but attacking the fascism of labels is totally metal.
Not only does she tear down the tyrannical practice of musically pigeonholing an artist, she furthermore refuses to even keep all of her music in the same genre over the course of the record itself.
Now, it's not that she's going so far as to have her death metal and her black metal then followed up by her stoner metal tracks....It's more like her death metal followed by her technical death metal which is buttressed by the melodic death metal tracks.
Though her music is totally not metal.
She starts off somewhere towards Americana and ends up in pop-post-folk. (If that's not a thing, it is now.)
Talvik's songs are highly emotional and feature a depth of emotion,. It's hard to decide if her strength lies in her writing or her performance.
This is the kind of thing that music historians will debate for the coming decades.
In the meantime, you try to decide for yourself, if you can.
The record is a quiet as a church mouse 180 gram vinyl. There's no colored option, just the Norwegian Black Metal At Night black color that those of us in corpse paint have grown to love in an ironic sense.
The only sounds coming out of that disc are the vibrant sounds of Ms. Talvik's music and it's an amazing depth of sound. The tonal range on this record is enough to keep me coming back for more just to see if I missed something, like a glockenspiel.
Apart from being a record full of great songs, it's something that'll confuse my wife when she hears it. She'll wonder why I'm listening to it.
Beauty.
Release: 9/27/19 Preorder Facebook
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