Sofia Talvik – Do You Belive In Fairytales?

2010 is the year when Sofia Talvik celebrates 5 years as an artist. At least if you count fram when she released her first album, ‘Blue Moon’. Since then she’s had air play all over the world, played huge festivals like the Lollapalooza and and established her name amongst the most interesting new singer/songwriters.

With her new album ‘Florida’ we’ll get to see a new side of Sofia. Her delicate songs have gained more power and volume and she’s mixed her usual acoustic instrumentation with electric sounds and programmed beats.

“I wanted the drums to be in focus on this album, and hold it together”, Sofia says. “Some songs have both real drums and -programmed beats which makes it different and more exciting.
I really feel this fits my new songs.”

Sofia may be Swedish, but naming her album ‘Florida’ is no coincidence, she actually lived in Orlando for a few months last year and this is where most of the songs were born. The title track was written during hurricane season when it rained for a week straight in ‘The Sunshine State’.

“Some songs are dark some are sunny, but all of them have a groove”, Sofia says. “I actually wanted the album to sound like what the intro to HBO’s ‘True Blood’ looks like. I think the songs have the same kind of weirdness to them as those pictures, and that’s the American south to me.”

As usual Sofia is one of the first to implement new ways to reach out to her fans, who have been able to follow the progress on Ustream and tweet to get her new single ‘As we catch on fire’ for free. Heck, this lady isn’t even satisfied with releasing just one album, if you preorder ‘Florida’ you’ll get a whole acoustic version of the album too. As if if the new album wasn’t enough of a treat itself …

Albums

Blue Moon 2005

Sofia Talvik was born on an island just off the west coast of Sweden. Her debut album Blue Moon took forty intense hours to record and the end result is a collection of songs presented virtually intact from the original live studio sessions. Having earnt a reputation as a great live performer, frequently playing at clubs in and around Stockholm and throughout Sweden, this is naturally the only way of bringing Sofias gentle, almost fragile voice to you and gives the album a unique sound, making it almost timeless in the sense that it could have been recorded twenty years ago as well as twenty years from now. Blue Moon was released in May 2005, and got rave reviews from press all over Sweden.

Street Of Dreams 2007

In January 2007 Sofia Talvik released the second album “Street of Dreams”. First single from the album was a duet with one of the UKs top indie icons of the last 15 years – Bernard Butler. “It’s Just Love” evokes memories of the last great “triumph over adversity” duet; “Don’t Give Up” by Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush. Sofia’s soft, delicate, almost fragile vocals soar over a powerful piano melody punctuated by soft percussion, gentle strings and the rarely heard resonance of an acoustic double bass.

Jonestown 2008

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. (Chrisr CD Baby)

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