Marit Larsen album preview, day eight: "I've Heard Your Love Songs"

[koganbot]

This time she's lush right at the start! However, she goes uncluttered soon enough and into what I'd call a typical Marit Larsen melody - though I can't specify what's typical about it, maybe not the melody but the half-offhand, half-blithe, barely inflected delivery, syllables cutting off quickly, sans melisma.* Of course, lushness returns, this song doing the contrast between her slight voice and the large orchestration even more than usual. Lyrics seem to be about song messages being subject to further review, or their applicability being contingent, or something. The "you" who writes the songs under question probably isn't the same "you" she yearns for.

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*She tends to save vocal embellishments for the choruses

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[koganbot]

Oh, Week In America is already a day late. I'll get to it, but first I'm off to read Krugman.