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Siv Jakobsen “Birthday” – You say it’s your birthday….
Siv Jakobsen did not enjoy her 25th birthday. But, making the best of a bad thing she did at least get a sardonic song out of it, so not all a loss even if it was […]
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Siv Jakobsen “Most Of The Time” – Flying high, sleeping right
Not, we hasten to point out, a cover of the Dylan song. Siv Jakobsen’s ‘Most of the Time‘ is a wistful, dreamlike song which evokes a wish, of sorts, to be alone: “I wanna know what […]
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The Northern Belle “No Rush” – Listen
The new single by the Norwegian septet The Northern Belle see’s the band’s sound expanded even further with the addition of vocals from Nordicana compatriots Siv Jakobsen and Louien. It means that there’s just extra layers to the […]
Album Reviews
Siv Jakobsen “A Temporary Soothing” (U OK?, 2020)
In conceiving her second full-length album ‘A Temporary Soothing’, Norwegian Siv Jakobsen ponders the age-old stereotype of artists suffering for their art. As an inherently happy person, albeit a self-confessed worrier and over-thinker, she considered the […]
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Siv Jakobsen “Anywhere Else” – Listen
‘Anywhere Else‘ has Siv Jakobsen analysing her anxieties – not the little ones that can nag every few minutes or so through a day but the really big ones that can be overwhelming enough to restrict […]