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Rave review from Ninthspace

I just got this lovely review from Ninthspace! Thank you so much! 🙂

“I guess, by the time a musician gets to their third album they know whether it’s going to work out for them. Not writing, recording and touring as a hobby, but embracing their talents and working with something that’s turned out to be innate to their existence. There are perhaps a handful of musicians that I could categorise in such a way.

With the release of Jonestown, Sofia Talvik easily gets over the idea of the difficult third album (younger sibling of the difficult second album) and turns out a collection that eclipses her first two. Opening track and lead single As Summers Pass recalls the past with its acoustic progressions, but the subsequent song My James Dean is astonishing.

Because it’s not what you’re expecting. Sure it has these synth pads that appear to hang over from its predecessor, but the guitar loops lower, more geared towards grooving. The best way I can describe it is the merging of the droning synth-rock of Stereolab and the sub-Spektor inclinations of El Perro del Mar with piano too.

Over the top of this comes Sofia’s outstanding vocals and a plaintiff declaration that I’m not that special. But she is.

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Jesus Àlskar dig, men han Àlskar mig mer

Jag fick just en vĂ€nförfrĂ„gan frĂ„n Jesus pĂ„ Facebook och han har ocksĂ„ blivit mitt fan pĂ„ facebook. MĂ„ste bero pĂ„ att jag döpt min skiva efter en kristen sekt…
Med andra ord Àr Jesus my homeboy. Om du ocksÄ vil bli min homeboy can du adda dig hÀr:
http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/Sofia-Talvik/6245812170

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Amerikanerna gillar mig!

Fast det visste ni ju redan. Jag spelade ju som första kvinnliga svenska artist pĂ„ deras största festival Lollapalooza i början av Augusti. Nu har CDBaby som Ă€r USAs största indiedistributör lagt upp mig som deras editor’s pick pĂ„ sin hemsida. Eller som de sjĂ€lva skriver: “We’re *really* picky about what we feature. We get about 200-250 new albums a DAY coming in here now, (about 200,000 total), and yours is one of the best we’ve ever heard.“

DÄ blir man ju jÀkligt glad! HÀr Àr deras recension pÄ skivan:

SOFIA TALVIK: Jonestown
Fresh from a powerful performance at 2008’s Lollapalooza festival, Sweden’s Sofia Talvik is now poised to conquer the States with the release of her devastatingly beautiful third album. It’s a record of staggering elegance, with the faintest trace of Scandinavian twee and youthful exuberance. (Timpani, crisp castanets, tambourine, all the toys and tricks to put some bounce in your step.) But those forces are tempered by a subtle melancholy that slowly drips down the lonely walls while you listen until, by the last song, you’re drowning in a warm, welcome bath of sad sounds, syrupy string sections, and round, resonant horns. She combines modal chord changes and beautiful 60’s euro-pop production with the gentle singing of a 70’s folk songstress. Her voice shines through the dark tones of dramatic, lush orchestrations and the haze of reverb like a ray of liquid luminescence. “Jonestown” will remind you of Goldfrapp, Pulp, Nico, Joni Mitchell, Nick Drake, Belle & Sebastian, Aimee Mann, Tori Amos, Burt Bacharach (I could go on and on!), and yet it sounds entirely original and, more importantly, rings true.

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CDbaby – editor’s pick

CDbaby writes me in their email: “We’re *really* picky about what we feature. We get about 200-250 new albums a DAY coming in here now, (about 200,000 total), and yours is one of the best we’ve ever heard.”

Read the full review here: http://cdbaby.com/cd/sofiatalvik3

CdBaby about Sofia Talvik
SOFIA TALVIK: Jonestown
Fresh from a powerful performance at 2008’s Lollapalooza festival, Sweden’s Sofia Talvik is now poised to conquer the States with the release of her devastatingly beautiful third album. It’s a record of staggering elegance, with the faintest trace of Scandinavian twee and youthful exuberance. (Timpani, crisp castanets, tambourine, all the toys and tricks to put some bounce in your step.) But those forces are tempered by a subtle melancholy that slowly drips down the lonely walls while you listen until, by the last song, you’re drowning in a warm, welcome bath of sad sounds, syrupy string sections, and round, resonant horns. She combines modal chord changes and beautiful 60’s euro-pop production with the gentle singing of a 70’s folk songstress. Her voice shines through the dark tones of dramatic, lush orchestrations and the haze of reverb like a ray of liquid luminescence. “Jonestown” will remind you of Goldfrapp, Pulp, Nico, Joni Mitchell, Nick Drake, Belle & Sebastian, Aimee Mann, Tori Amos, Burt Bacharach (I could go on and on!), and yet it sounds entirely original and, more importantly, rings true.

author: Chrisr at CD Baby

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Conquering Belgium!

“I fell under the charm from this sublime artist equipped with a voice with angel and a true artistic universe”
I found this wonderful quote on a Belgian/French blog called With Music In My Mind. The blogger recently discovered my music and wrote such a wonderful piece about it that I had to post it here on my website. You can read the entire blog here:
http://withmusicinmymind.blogspot.com/2008/09/coup-de-foudre-sofia-talvik-nouvel.html

If you have trouble reading French, I suggest you use the practical translation tool Babelfish: http://se.babelfish.yahoo.com/

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