|
|
|
|
| |
FRIDA HYVONEN - Until Death Comes
| Harmonium | | When a disc arrives in the Harmonium mailbox with press claims that the artist bears resemblances to the likes of Joni Mitchell and Carole King, it’s not taken lightly. You can’t just throw those names around casually; you have to have the chops to back it up. Fortunately, Frida Hyvönen just about does, and Until Death Comes captures this complex artist just as she is hitting her stride....full text |
| | MusicEmissions.com | | She is able to add some great individualism to the tried and true piano ballads...full text |
| | PitchFork | | Frida Hyvönen is a Swedish pianist with a bent for twinkling flurries of notes slamming into clanging, chunky chords-- periodic ticks of dissonance tucked into harmonies. Like her piano playing, her voice is capable of almost spontaneous dynamic magic. Sometimes she howls; other times she performs in a near-whisper. Those are sufficient conditions for success as a performer and, possibly, as a songwriter, but people keep wanting to find more in her songs, like panaceas for whatever they feel is ailing American pop or Erica Jong novels condensed into a pretty two-minute ellipsis....full text |
|
FRIDA HYVONEN lyrics |
|