People who like those might like a lot of the darker songs on Lhasa's The Living Road album, although Lhasa is pretty much the opposite of Stina vocally.― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, January 3, 2005 7:30 AM (6 years ago)
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, January 3, 2005 7:30 AM (6 years ago)
she said in an interview around the time The World Is Saved came out that she rarely listened to music by other singers but that Lhasa was one she enjoyed. one artist who really reminds me of Stina is former Sparklehorse collaborator Sol Seppy, who put out a solo album and EP in 2006. I'm suspicious of reviews that compare other artists to Stina Nordenstam, though. it seems like her name is whipped out almost as lazily as Bjork's to describe any and all "quirky", "mysterious" Scandinavian female singer-songwriters regardless of what their music actually sounds like.
― gtforia estfufan (unregistered), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 01:26 (thirteen years ago) link
it's so right that it seems this thread is always bumped every winter!― lex pretend (lex pretend), Thursday, January 4, 2007 9:30 AM (5 years ago)
― lex pretend (lex pretend), Thursday, January 4, 2007 9:30 AM (5 years ago)
Well, still fall here but the time is right. And Memories of a Color is sounding good right this second.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 18:16 (eleven years ago) link
an apt Sol Seppy reference upthread :)
― t**t, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 20:12 (eleven years ago) link
miss you boo :-( come out of retirement
― Tim F, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 22:30 (eleven years ago) link
there used to be a tour section on her website which when you clicked it read "Stina don't tour"
― zvookster, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 22:39 (eleven years ago) link
damn it thread bumpers on this
― katherine, Thursday, 1 November 2012 01:17 (eleven years ago) link
that said this sol seppy album is kind of amazing
I just wish she'd release the handful of songs from Jean Claude that didn't make it onto the album. "Give Me More of Everything" has a particularly exquisite arrangement of strings and woodwinds and creaking wagon wheels (?) that would've been a highlight on any of her albums.
http://sclors.tumblr.com/post/40897837779/give-me-more-of-everything-stina-nordenstam-i
still feel like this is one of the best songs recorded by anyone ever
― ikwikiykwim (unregistered), Friday, 15 February 2013 21:59 (eleven years ago) link
the way her voice cracks on "have no favorites at all" is pretty much perfect
― katherine, Sunday, 17 February 2013 18:04 (eleven years ago) link
well, she's still alive
(but there's no mention of a new album in the works, so I apologize for getting anyone's hopes up)
― Remember! The cormorant is a big brrd. It has got a long neck. (unregistered), Monday, 30 September 2013 21:18 (ten years ago) link
literally the other day I was telling someone I was afraid she'd just quit music altogether so this is encouraging
― katherine, Monday, 30 September 2013 22:14 (ten years ago) link
must be autumn again
― zvookster, Tuesday, 1 October 2013 00:43 (ten years ago) link
also that
― katherine, Tuesday, 1 October 2013 00:51 (ten years ago) link
(but an interview is about 1000x more than "uh, we heard this snippet of this song in a Crystal Castles song" or w/e
Good to see that Stina has been selected as one of the 12 'music greats' to be included in the Swedish Music Hall of Fame'.
http://www.easybranches.eu/european-news/1577523.html
― RobB, Monday, 10 February 2014 18:57 (ten years ago) link
We're coming up on ten years since "The World Is Saved" was released? Crazy. I guess she has given up on music.
― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 23:28 (ten years ago) link
rare footage from her cocktail jazz days!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAkHBBP6nWk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksKR_BQ1v4E
(I just hope the unauthorized release of these videos won't push her next album back another decade...)
― macklemore looks something like you (unregistered), Sunday, 20 July 2014 21:28 (ten years ago) link
oops, that third clip should be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orSZQ6VIE7g
amazing
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 21 July 2014 13:59 (ten years ago) link
she's fucking hypnotic
holy shit how had I not seen these
― katherine, Monday, 21 July 2014 16:56 (ten years ago) link
What's the context here? What kind of TV show is this?
The arrangements and sweetness of her voice reminds me of the first two Cardigans albums.
― boxedjoy, Monday, 21 July 2014 19:31 (ten years ago) link
this is straight out of a David Lynch movie
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 13:15 (ten years ago) link
what happened to her? she was so desperate, so lonely, so sad and now this! she has discovered jazz or did jazz discover her? amazing!
― it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 21:01 (ten years ago) link
did i get the timing wrong? are all these cocktail jazz clips from before her solo releases? in that case the evolution of her music is not so surprising really.
― it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 21:08 (ten years ago) link
"there has always been an element of jazz blues to my music"
― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 21:17 (ten years ago) link
Can anyone recommend something that sounds like Dynamite? Obviously there is a lot of stark post-punk that has a similar texture but is there anything so introverted and so industrial-sounding yet fragile?
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 21:38 (ten years ago) link
The clips are from 1989, by the looks of it. She's 20 there.
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 21:46 (ten years ago) link
Memories of a Colour was still pretty jazz-pop in parts.
Dynamite has such a unique vibe to it, especially the longer tracks toward the end which set up that kind of lugubrious pummeling vibe ("CQD", "Down Desire Avenue").
― Tim F, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 22:49 (ten years ago) link
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, July 22, 2014 5:38 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
hi, me to thread, first the copout: parts of This Is seem likely to have been intended for Dynamite, specifically "Welcome to Happiness" and "So Lee"; B-sides "The Thing About Fire" and "Walking Too Fast" are worth finding too.
as far as specific suggestions, possibly lisa germano on her quieter stuff; or this is possibly too loud/poppy for these purposes, but parts of the last ladyhawke album sort of get there: "The Quick and the Dead," "Cellophane," etc. it's easy to imagine them scaled back 10x to sound like dynamite would
― katherine, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 22:53 (ten years ago) link
chunks of both Memories of a Colour AND And She Closed Her Eyes get pretty jazz-blues
― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 23:16 (ten years ago) link
why can i not load these clips on the page??
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 23:22 (ten years ago) link
the most sparse songs on the album basically sound like hugo largo w/ assorted found objects adding extra ambience. the non percussive, bass driven tracks in particular seem heavily indebted to HL, that's the closest reference point i can think of.
― cock chirea, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 02:08 (ten years ago) link
http://www.wearebeaconsound.com/shop/stina-nordenstam-the-world-is-saved
― katherine, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 00:46 (nine years ago) link
that's nice but where's a new album?
― akm, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 04:55 (nine years ago) link
:(
― katherine, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 05:06 (nine years ago) link
A little part of my dies each time this thread is revived.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 06:26 (nine years ago) link
I know it's bad form to revive this thread, but I was listening to And She Closed Her Eyes again today and I had almost forgotten how utterly charming this album is.
"And I can't go on like this is not a way of telling you to be mine... Be mine."
― Tim F, Wednesday, 29 June 2016 13:14 (eight years ago) link
Her songs still pop up on my iPod and they hold up very well. I've forgiven the chorus "On Falling" for sounding so much like "Sharon & Hope" because it's the better song.
I stumbled upon a hip hop song called "stina nordenstam" recently, but I remember it being forgettable.
― Michael F Gill, Wednesday, 29 June 2016 15:07 (eight years ago) link
you do realize you just killed a little part of yourself (xpost)
― small doug yule carnival club (unregistered), Wednesday, 29 June 2016 15:23 (eight years ago) link
also me, you killed a little part of me
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Wednesday, 29 June 2016 17:19 (eight years ago) link
You know it's getting very hard… to go on now. But I pretend I want to.
― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Wednesday, 29 June 2016 18:28 (eight years ago) link
Stina's perfect for the colder days.
― Ross, Wednesday, 7 September 2016 04:22 (eight years ago) link
Next week is the twenty year anniversary of Dynamite and I am counting on someone in this thread to have pitched a piece relating to it
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 7 September 2016 12:55 (eight years ago) link
Stina always makes me pitch a piece.
(Sorry.)
― Our Meals Are Hot And Fresh! (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 7 September 2016 12:56 (eight years ago) link
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, September 7, 2016 8:55 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
sadly I have given up on people loving what I love
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Wednesday, 7 September 2016 14:53 (eight years ago) link
katherine I actually assumed you would have something in the works for this
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 7 September 2016 21:30 (eight years ago) link
believe me, if I thought I could successfully pitch it I would, but generally no one gives a shit about reissues that aren't already part of the canon
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Thursday, 8 September 2016 05:47 (eight years ago) link
(s/reissues/anniversaries, though The World Is Saved sure didn't get much fanfare when it was re-released earlier)
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Thursday, 8 September 2016 05:48 (eight years ago) link
(feel free to insert "have you considered that the problem is you," also)