Anneli Drecker (From Norway)

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Those who are into Annie and Bertine Zetlitz should check out the new album by Anneli Drecker, called "Frolic".

Drecker used to be the singer in Bel Canto, but is now a solo artist. Her new songs are more pop oriented and less "floating" like they used to be in Bel Canto, but also even more electronic than Bel Canto used to be. The album is crowded with great electro songs influenced by the likes of Depeche Mode, Eurythmics and Blancmange. (note that, as a singer, she still sounds a lot like Liz Fraser like she has always done)

You may start out by looking for leadoff single "You Don't Have To Change", which was co-produced by Röyksopp, but which has considerably more of an electro feel than "My Heartbeat" did.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 09:35 (nineteen years ago) link

she sang with jah wobble and manufacure too. one to look for i think. i liked bel canto.

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 09:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes but is she hott?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 10:03 (nineteen years ago) link

oh yes

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 11:18 (nineteen years ago) link

I liked Bel Canto too! Although I haven't heard anything after 96's Magic Box (which disappointed me when I got it for being too pop compared to their earlier stuff, but now seems kinda just right).

I will have to check this out.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 11:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Ooh, lovely. Thank you.

― davidsim (davidsim), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 11:36 (nineteen years ago) link

shimmering, warm and bright. how i loved that bel canto album ten to twelve years ago. her voice is more natural and warmer than liz fraser's or björk's. absolutely gorgeous.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 11:42 (nineteen years ago) link

I adore the German song at the end of that album, and another one... "Waking Will"?

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 11:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Sample of "You Don't Have To Change" is available at
http://www.annelidrecker.com/

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 13:26 (nineteen years ago) link

three months pass...

Wow I didn't realise that "Desire" was (co?)produced by Lindstrom!!

Listening back it kind of makes sense - it actually sounds like "I Feel Space" is playing somewhere in the background.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 1 August 2005 12:48 (eighteen years ago) link

nine years pass...

new track "circulating light" is not so poppy, but it is also gorgeous, it sounds exactly like spring feels after months of the apocalypse

― katherine, Friday, 3 April 2015 18:49 (nine years ago) link

two years pass...

One of the better tracks on the Justin Adams album (to which Drecker makes significant contributions):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhdgJUJrlis

Yes, she also has an album of her own out this year. Haven't heard it all.

― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 14 December 2017 00:37 (six years ago) link

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