MAGNUS MORIARTY
Wednesday
With last year’s terrific, yet somewhat overlooked album ‘Perhaps Interior Heart Politeness’, Magnus etched his name into Norwegian pop history. Albums like this one are few and far between; it’s packed with great pop tunes, hidden treasures, tasteful harmonies and weird instrumentation. The album was released on the brilliant and uncompromising label Metronomicon Audio, which has released loads of great albums by artists like for example Truls & The Trees, Center of the Universe, Now We’ve Got Members and Cyrano.
We’re not going to praise this guy to the skies all on our own. Instead we’ve picked out a couple of sentences from the review in national newspaper Dagbladet, which gave the album a 6/6:
“This album is a ‘grower’, and a ‘grower’ of the finest kind, too; there are enough immediately striking songs that one avoids any feeling of being charitable when giving it a second spin, it’s complicated enough that every listen offers something new, and it has substance enough in even the simplest of its melodies that one in the end, after having listened until the mind is muddled, is left with an album where every track still gives you a kick.” 6/6, Dagbladet, Peter Volsett
For some inexplicable reason, Magnus Moriarty wasn’t part of the official by:Larm bill this year, but we did get a chance to see him at some pre:Larm event the day before the convention started. Outstanding! We’re fans.
