- Release Info -------------------------------------------------------------- -
Artist: Hafdis Huld
Album: Synchronised Swimmers
Label: Red Grape
Playtime: 44:04 min
Genre: Pop
URL: http://www.myspace.com/hafdishuld
Rip date: 2011-02-09
Street date: 2010-00-00
Size: 61.20 MB
Type: Normal
Quality: 184 kbps / 4410kHz / Joint Stereo
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Iceland's Hafdφs Huld was just 15 when she toured the world with dance
pioneers GusGus. Such independence of spirit defines most popular music that
makes it across the North Atlantic, but while artists such as Bj÷rk and Sigur
R≤s have carved very definite niches, Huld's sweetly melancholic strand of
folk-pop is, for all it's quirky pretensions, disappointingly prosaic.
Synchronised Swimmers starts well: opener Action Man delivers a lovely
sing-song chorus over bubbling electronics and acoustic guitar, while K≤ngul≤
(Icelandic for spider and dedicated to French climber Alain Robert) harnesses
her delicate, high-pitched sigh of a voice to perfection. As the album
progresses, however, Huld's need to appear kooky becomes cloying, reaching
its nadir with replacement boyfriend fantasy, Robot Robot: "Feed the ducks
with bread/ He scares them off/ With the lasers on his head." Even a co-write
from 80s heart-throb Nik Kershaw can't save I Almost Know a Criminal. The
idea of nearly having an interesting story to tell is true of the album as a
whole.
- Track List ---------------------------------------------------------------- -
01. Action Man ( 3:52)
02. Oldest Friend ( 3:31)
03. Kongulo ( 2:54)
04. One of Those Things ( 3:28)
05. Boys and Perfume ( 3:26)
06. Synchronised Swimmers ( 3:21)
07. Daisy ( 3:33)
08. Time Of My Life ( 4:01)
09. Homemade Lemonade ( 3:21)
10. I Almost Know a Criminal ( 3:17)
11. Robot Robot ( 2:15)
12. Vampires ( 3:01)
13. Winter Sun ( 4:04)
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