Monday's Long Song

 

I never thought that Anna von Hausswolf, a Swedish singer and composer, would appear on these pages one day. Her songs, which mainly dealt with death, were too dark in the past. No one can doubt that she has always had a good voice, but her mixture of art pop, drone, and gothic, with an organ pipe at its center, takes some getting used to.

Now she announced a new album that will be released at Halloween and I have to admit that the leading single shows new road she will walk. Based on a 80's electronic post-punk sound she includes some folk-pop into her sound, the organ pipe isn't is no longer so dominant and makes way for a hypnotic beat.