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Album
Halden Electric
Women
(Rootsy.nu)

Price: 89 SEK

The third (and fourth) album from Norwegian americana artist. Both sides now!

Halden Electric went into the studio over a year ago with a handful of songs to record an acoustic album. The result was very good. Very good. But the singer and writer Anders Svendsen had the feeling that something was missing. Not knowing quite what. Cover design, mastering the songs and whatnot seemed to take its time, for seemingly no good reason at all. The band decided to keep on working and go back into the studio. They came out again with another nine new songs. Heavy, electric and powerful. «There wasn’t an instrument that wasn’t plugged into something with a potential distortion,» Anders says.

That was the piece that made everything fall into place. Of course, «Women» was going to be a double. Two records that complement each other and together they create something really big.

They approached «the difficult third album» carefully with acoustic guitars, upright bass, mandolins and dobros. Live on the living room floor. But the project and the confidence in what they were doing grew on its own in many ways. That’s the creative impulse that vital music needs today.

«Along the way recorded 6-8 songs that we left out, that we didn’t feel were right for this album, so that it would actually become an entity. So it’s not as if we’ve stuffed two discs full of everything we had just because we could,» says Anders.

You can make a connection all the way back to Dylan’s «Bringing It All Back Home» or Neil Young’s «Tonight’s The Night». You can also say that there hasn’t been anything like it in Norway before. And you can for sure claim that there aren’t that many left out there with this creative force.

It’s a song cycle filled with observations and musings about relationships, men and women. Mostly about women. The whole range is represented: faith, bitterness, joy and hope. Easily recognizable from our own lives, but often also with some new perspectives.

Even musically, the whole range is being covered. From beautiful, soaring string arrangements to mean, bombastic guitars.

«Women» is an impressive work from one of Norway’s - no, Scandinavia’s - most personal and talented songwriters. A Leonard Cohen and Neil Young melted into one.

CD 1:
1. Loving Comes To Life
2. Always You
3. Be For Real
4. Everything You Love
5. Light Your Lantern
6. Good Enough
7. Annie Leaving
8. Move On
9. I Don't Think It's Funny
10. Something Less
11. True Love
CD 2:
1. No More Love
2. These Wounds
3. I Don't Want To
4. See No Evil
5. All I Ever Needed
6. How Much Attention
7. Somewhere
8. Good To Be Alone
9. Trust Your Love

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