| Holmsten, Moa / Bruised Arms & Broken Rhythms |
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| Album: | Bruised Arms & Broken Rhythms | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Holmsten, Moa | Added: | Nov 2015 | |
| Label: | Fill In The Blank Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2015-11-08 | Pull Date: | 2016-01-10 |
| Week Ending: | Jan 10 | Jan 3 | Dec 27 | Dec 13 | Dec 6 | Nov 29 | Nov 22 | Nov 15 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Oct 23, 2021: | Music Casserole (rebroadcast from Dec 20, 2015) Soul Driver | 4. | Dec 25, 2015: | Meow Lift Me Up | |
| 2. | Jan 06, 2016: | Home on the Range The River, Dancing In The Dark, Highway 29 | 5. | Dec 20, 2015: | Music Casserole Soul Driver | |
| 3. | Dec 30, 2015: | EXCALABUR Streets Of Fire | 6. | Dec 06, 2015: | Meow State Trooper |
| Album Review |
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| jessica rylan Reviewed 2015-11-02 | ||
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Swedish singer covering Bruce Springsteen. Holmsten’s vocal range is amazing - both in the range of timbres she can produce, and the styles she covers. The songs run the gammut of styles. A few of the songs are awful, but the good ones really stick with you. The conceit of “woman singing love songs about a woman” doesn’t always work, but there’s something illuminating (and perhaps shocking) hearing Springsteen’s lyrics in such a clear and spare setting. FCC Clean. Faves: 1, 4, 7, 8, 9, 6?, 12 1. Highway 29 - A chance sexual encounter, a murder, a very spare musical setting 2. Dancing in the Dark - the 80’s/psuedo-darkwave setting is great, until the sax solo ruins it 3. The River - acoustic guitar and brushed snare, Americana, 4. Sad Eyes - Piano and double-tracked high-pitched vocals, sounds like it was recorded in Brooklyn 5. Badlands - Awful Amy Winehouse wannabe yuck 6. Born to Run - very slow, precious, with a backing chorus, I can’t tell whether it works? 7. Soul Driver - Beautiful, raspy vocals right up front over quiet plucked guitar and violin. Excellent. 8. State Trooper - Sounds like Suicide?!?! 9. Lift Me up - slowed-down early 60’s girl group except it’s male backing vocals, then gets hipster jammy. 10. We take care of our own - Sounds the most like an actual Bruce Springsteen song. Driving, builds, anthemic 11. Incident on 57th St - Painful shrieking, recorded “live in a room” except then the room changes, I really dislike this one 12. Streets of Fire - Muted, sotto voce, treble all the way down kind of like early Cat Power 13. Tougher than the rest - Electronic drums that sound like a Casio keyboard preset, very 80’s 14. You’re Missing - Affected “little girl” vocals effected with some distortion, maybe a banjo in the background? Iffy | ||
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