Posts tagged Sakert!

For a little while, I was starting to think we’d heard the last of Hello Saferide. Everything had been quiet for a while, while Annika Norlin’s other project, the Swedish language Säkert! seemed to keep moving forwards. Thankfully, my fears were unfounded, and we not only have a new song from the Saferide song, but a whole new album, entitled More Modern Short Stories From.., will be released on September 24.

Anna continues Norlin’s walking of the very fine line between the endearing and the vaguely creepy. The song is Norlin singing about a lost daughter through her entire life, from little things like learning to play guitar and hockey right up to the parental wishlist of winning a Nobel Prize and curing AIDS. It actually feels like a rather sweet tale about a child that had passed away and what their life could have included. Of course, it’s actually far simpler than that. The whole exercise turns out to be a bitter flight of fancy. Still, what else should we expect from the woman who judges potential partners on whether or not they talk while watching Seinfeld?