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There are a few moments of that grand sound on People Are Strange too, if I recall correctly, nestled in Like A Swallow, I Dream Of Jeannie, and Reason To Believe, but it still sounds relatively embryonic. TWIS is a confluence of the warmth and lushness of PAS with a more developed dissonance taken from Dynamite. This Is... is the odd one out, sitting more with the first two albums in terms of uncontinued ideas. TWIS is a much more natural follow up to PAS, for me.

I used to love Dynamite a lot, and it really hit me hard in, oh, 1999 or so when I first found it. Since getting into TWIS, I'm less enamoured, somehow. Maybe it's just less striking now. It's still a phenomenal album, just less monolithic, I guess.

re: vocals, yeah, it's a constant understatement. she's developed it over time, too; Memories of a Colour, while still nowhere near the operatic grandstanding Bjork is famous for, is much more conventionally expressive. She's become more deadpan with each album since, I think, and it's worked better and better, maybe less so on This Is....

― derrick (derrick), Monday, 3 January 2005 20:37 (nineteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

03 stina nordenstam - the things you said.mp3
01 stina nordenstam - i could still (be an actor).mp3
16 freddie wadling & stina nordenstam - v?landsvisan.mp3
14 vangelis & stina nordenstam - slow piece (128kbps).mp3
15 vangelis - ask the mountains (extended version).mp3
07 stina nordenstam - dynamite (soundtrack mix).mp3
09 zbigniew preisner with stina nordenstam - for you.mp3
11 stina nordenstam - people are strange (unkle remix).mp3
06 mew feat stina nordenstam - her voice is beyond her years.mp3
05 stina nordenstam - greetings from the old.mp3
02 stina nordenstam - now when i see you.mp3
13 fleshquartet (vocals by s nordenstam & tim wolde) - someo.mp3
04 stina nordenstam - treat me nice.mp3
08 stina nordenstam - first day in spring.mp3
10 yello with stina nordenstam - to the sea (radio version n.mp3
12 stina nordenstam - little star (be zet wireless edit).mp3

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 January 2005 02:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Are those all her rarities, Skilla?

The new(ish) album is fantastic. That is all.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 20 January 2005 02:27 (nineteen years ago) link

yes.

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 20 January 2005 02:28 (nineteen years ago) link

I love that epic ambient remix of Little Star.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 20 January 2005 15:16 (nineteen years ago) link

two months pass...

Here's a rare interview with Stina from last year:
http://www.desireavenue.com/spec/singing/

Great reading.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 11 April 2005 20:01 (nineteen years ago) link

two months pass...

"The World Is Saved" has now been released in the U.S. with three good bonus tracks: "Failing to Fly," Get On With Your Life (Pluxus Mix,)" and "The End of A Love Affair (Faultline Remix.)"

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 24 June 2005 00:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Hm, waiting a bit might have been the right idea!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 June 2005 00:59 (eighteen years ago) link

NICE!

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 24 June 2005 02:13 (eighteen years ago) link

great

― a real bear behind the microphone (nordicskilla), Friday, 24 June 2005 02:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Even nicer for you David, as a quote from your review made it to the album cover.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 24 June 2005 03:01 (eighteen years ago) link

DAVID LOVES STINA

― a real bear behind the microphone (nordicskilla), Friday, 24 June 2005 03:06 (eighteen years ago) link

YOU ARE SHITTING ME

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 24 June 2005 03:07 (eighteen years ago) link

Heheh, the power of Pitchfork.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 June 2005 03:12 (eighteen years ago) link

I tried to order this via GEMM when it was released, but got ripped off. So, hurrah.

It's a shame all of her records aren't released in the States. Really an underrated artist of the last 15 years. Everyone I've ever played her for has liked her--and non-music-freaks like my sisters recognise her from the 'Romeo + Juliet' soundtrack, apparently, and like her, too.

― I.M. (I.M.), Friday, 24 June 2005 04:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Not shitting you man!

xpost

― Michael "Not very Quotable" Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 24 June 2005 04:04 (eighteen years ago) link

'The World Is Saved' is easily my favourite album from last year.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Friday, 24 June 2005 12:15 (eighteen years ago) link

goddamn you US bonus tracks!

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 24 June 2005 13:00 (eighteen years ago) link

aaargh bonus tracks!

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 24 June 2005 13:29 (eighteen years ago) link

oooh, i will get this

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 24 June 2005 17:40 (eighteen years ago) link

four months pass...

This is still a perfect winter album. I love it greatly

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Saturday, 5 November 2005 00:10 (eighteen years ago) link

It is almost THE perfect winter album.

― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Saturday, 5 November 2005 00:14 (eighteen years ago) link

I can't recall any other album of this decade that has kept me interested and charmed for this long.

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Saturday, 5 November 2005 00:19 (eighteen years ago) link

haha i just started listening to it in the past week again too.

note cold snap in england.

― The Lex (The Lex), Saturday, 5 November 2005 15:06 (eighteen years ago) link

Just dl'd this last week. I really happy she's released a decent album again. I don't know if ten years can ever be "worth the wait", but I'm glad anyway.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Saturday, 5 November 2005 15:40 (eighteen years ago) link

(I like parts of the previous three, and Memories, but find them a bit tedious the whole way through.)

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Saturday, 5 November 2005 15:50 (eighteen years ago) link

I came around massively to This Is Stina Nordenstam, which I only managed to find just after The World Is Saved was released, and which sounded very slight in comparison initially. I now fairly love it. But... The World Is Saved is truly exceptional. Especially "Morning Belongs to the Night"!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 5 November 2005 21:34 (eighteen years ago) link

'This Is' is still my fave by a long ways. 'The World is Saved' is ok, but doesn't hit me quite as much.

― I.M. (I.M.), Saturday, 5 November 2005 23:20 (eighteen years ago) link

note cold snap in england

It was 18 C here on Wednesday, it's been unusually mild for this time of year.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Saturday, 5 November 2005 23:30 (eighteen years ago) link

is one of her tracks playing in a current Orange phone advert? if so what's the track?

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 6 November 2005 03:23 (eighteen years ago) link

joanna newsom "this side of the blue"? her singing on that songs a lot more er restrained than usual

― zappi (joni), Sunday, 6 November 2005 03:39 (eighteen years ago) link

thanks zappi. i've never heard Newsom.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 6 November 2005 03:41 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Listening to 'People Are Strange' right now; I forget how gorgeous the tempo and pacing is on this album. A wonderfully warm sound, too. 'Like A Swallow', 'Came so Far for Beauty' and especially 'Reason to Believe stand out for me.

― derrick (derrick), Saturday, 31 December 2005 10:20 (eighteen years ago) link

I think this is her most underrated album, and from time to time I think of it as her best. "Reason to Believe" and "I Dream of Jeannie" are two of the most gorgeous things she's ever produced. It's a less fragile record than And she closed her eyes and seems better-constructed than Dynamite. And few albums can touch it for sheer imaginative deconstruction of other people's songs.

― Myke Weiskopf (Myke Weiskopf), Saturday, 31 December 2005 15:19 (eighteen years ago) link

nine months pass...

C-90.

And she closed her eyes
Another Story Girl
Clothe Yourself for the Wind
Crime
Dynamite
First Day in Spring
Get On With Your Life
Greetings from the Old World
His Song (...or at least the first 2:00)
I Dream of Jeannie
Keen Yellow Planet
Little Star
Memories of a Color
Murder in Mairyland Park
Now When I See You
People Are Strange
Proposal
Purple Rain
Reason to Believe
So Lee
Stations
Trainsurfing
When Debbie's Back from Texas
Winter Killing

― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Monday, 2 October 2006 23:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Word is that a new album is expected in 2007.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 04:35 (seventeen years ago) link

possibly with "as heard on the washing machine ad" all over it.

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 11:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't remember the last time I saw a washing machine ad.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 11:39 (seventeen years ago) link

three months pass...

Finally listening to The World is Saved. That took me long enough.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link

You're such a Ned.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link

it's so right that it seems this thread is always bumped every winter!

― lex pretend (lex pretend), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:30 (seventeen years ago) link

You're such a Ned.

Completely!

it's so right that it seems this thread is always bumped every winter!

Yeah, I'll go with that. Even better that today is gray here (it's been mostly sunny all week).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link

she also sings on one track on the new nine horses ep I think, which is part new stuff, and partially remixes of stuff from the album. I think.

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 4 January 2007 20:32 (seventeen years ago) link

I am a huge, longtime Stina fan, and yet I cannot stand This is.... Am I wrong?
Must say I've always loved This Is... lots more than the apparently universally-adored-on-this-thread Dynamite. That I've always found kinda hard going, for me. But maybe I'm "wrong" as well :)

...Dream of Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair. Apparently an old folk song...
Ain't exactly a folk song, allegedly. According to olden chronicles, 'twas written by one Stephen Foster (1826-1864), author of also "Oh! Susanna", "Old Folks At Home" and other popular faves of yore.

― tiit (tiit), Thursday, 4 January 2007 20:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Nine Horses EP:
http://www.discogs.com/release/799675

Remix of "Wonderful World" duet & "Birds Sing For Their Lives" is Stina solo. Very elegiac, reminds me slightly of Murcof.

― xcixxorx (xcixxorx), Thursday, 4 January 2007 21:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Reminds slightly of Murcof?!
Oh boy. Must get teh Horses EP then, uhuh.

― tiit (tiit), Thursday, 4 January 2007 22:00 (seventeen years ago) link

I would love a new Stina album this year.

― Hairy Asshurt (Toaster), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:05 (seventeen years ago) link

four weeks pass...

I heard the Knife have covered Stina's "Soon after Christmas" live, has anyone heard it?

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 2 February 2007 08:13 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.stinanordenstam.com/ is the new website, soon to be updated. V2 has said there *will* be a new album this year.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 2 February 2007 08:17 (seventeen years ago) link

'This Is' has always been my fave, followed by the covers record. 'The World is Saved' might even come before 'Dynamite,' though I still think of myself as digging that album.

I'd love to see her collaborate with The Knife. Hmm. . .

― I.M. (I.M.), Friday, 2 February 2007 18:24 (seventeen years ago) link

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