Dynamite
Short post.
Have you ever noticed that Stina Nordenstams Dynamite is probably one of the best production works ever. And arrangements too. You can hear, or at least guess from what you hear that the songs are quite simple, but they’ve been covered with so beautiful layers of everything that it’s just takes my breath away. Like all those orchestral arrangements with strings and woodwinds(?) and the use of drums and distorted guitars. The contrast which her [almost] fragile voice greates with all the such a heavy drum work… It’s so heavy and so violent and… Like listen to almost a smile‘s B section, it could be Katatonia playing, actually the riff is very close to Katatonia. and after it when the strings come along… and the bass. It’s just so great so great. The variation of just drum sounds alone is just breathtaking.
And then the bridge to C part in the man with the gun it also could be from katatonia. And the bass sound over there.
Or then the violence and bitterness and revenge in until. It contains more emotion than any american “emo” band get to to their radioplaymarketed soppy albums.
It’s so sad that I don’t have the album here, so I cannot check who has done the arrangements and even wiki doesn’t help me here. Anyway I just noticed that some jerk had actually given this album 2out of 5 which is just bad, to me this is the only 5/5 Stina Album ever. Let’s hope we hear some new stuff on this year.
I notice that I’m very bad at writing any kind of reviews, because the albums I want to write about are always so awesome in my opinion that I just can’t find the words to describe them in anyway decent.
But christ just listen her sing “I think I am in love” in CQD… Like how can you describe it? there’s no way, you have to hear it.
I’m sure that nowdays you can get this album with less than 10€ and it’s worth every cent, it would be worth of 20€ as well.
A lot of new music too, but I have to listen more of that stuff before I can write anything. New Nadja is coming since it has leaked already. I’m waiting when it will come to alien8′s webshop. me order straight away for sure.
Take Care now.
