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I can’t believe it. I heard about Hello Saferide a few days ago and “Introducing�, her debut, is already one of my favourite on my ipod, at least the few songs I found for free download on various websites.

Hello Saferide is Annika Norlin from Östersund, Sweden. She was 7 when she started writing songs for herself and her mum. 19 years later, she released one of her songs on a compilation, a song titled “Highschool Stalkerâ€? about a young girl addicted to altavista and yahoo search engines, a girl who spends hours spying on a boy and drinking coffee with the boy’s mum. A girl not unlike Anna herself… Then she released her proper debut “Introducingâ€? which is, as I just said, full of great pop-songs.

Think Anna Ternheim, but a funny and witty Ternheim* (see her journal on her website, read her lyrics), and I hope you won’t be fooled by what you can read about the music in various reviews: it’s far from “bubblegum pop� or from “tweepop�, in my humble opinion… even though you can sometimes hear some handclaps, some shalalas, some jangling guitars, some trumpets… But there’s something else in her music, something which makes it much more original, touching and interesting than simple tweepop: it may be the slow and sad songs whispered with a soft voice, it may be the catchy and folkish voice and melodies, it may be the lyrics which are great short stories precisely describing, in a few words, complicated feelings and trivial moments with the same elegance. It may be her charm.

Hello Saferide official homepage, on myspace, on her record label.

Photo: Mikael K Jansson

* No, I’m not saying that Anna Ternheim is not funny nor witty. What I mean is that her songs are probably even sadder… Anyway, I’ll let another Noisefisk editor write about Anna Ternheim, (’cause yes, I’m not supposed to be the only editor down here…)

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