catalogue

HYVÖNEN, FRIDA

SILENCE IS WILD (SECRETLY CANADIAN)

HYVÖNEN, FRIDA - SILENCE IS WILD 36077
format:
1 CD
release:
14.11.2008
label:
SECRETLY CANADIAN
item ID:
36077
barcode:
0656605018423
Having come out of a year of isolation, Frida Hyvönen paired up once again with Swedish producer Jari Haapalainen in Stockholm's famous Atlantis studio and made her second full-length Silence Is Wild - due November 4th, 2008 on Secretly Canadian.Whereas Hyvönen's 2006 debut Until Death Comes was lean and percussive with her distinctive oompah-styled piano and direct lyrics, Silence Is Wild stretches her voice across lush arrangements of piano, strings, choirs, and synths.

Piano-based antecedents and contemporaries such as Carole King, Jerry Lee Lewis, Plush, and Antony and the Johnsons generally feel like appropriate touchstones for discussing the Swedish singer-songwriter's recorded work.

Lyrically, however, Hyvönen is in more open waters, as she forges her own stylistic path as a songwriter.

On Silence is Wild, Hyvönen continues to take an utterly modern approach to classic songwriting forms: blending the confessional with the fictional; mixing wit with a sexuality that shifts from the refined to the raw; all the while using language which dances effortlessly between the timeless and the contemporary, referencing high art and pop culture in a transcendent manner which masterfully put Hyvönen at the top of a new international class of singer-songwriters.
 
  • Tracklisting
  • 1.1. DIRTY DANCING
  • 1.2. ENEMY WITHIN
  • 1.3. HIGHWAY 2 U
  • 1.4. LONDON!
  • 1.5. MY COUSIN
  • 1.6. SCIENCE
  • 1.7. SCANDINAVIAN BLONDE
  • 1.8. DECEMBER
  • 1.9. BIRDS
  • 1.10. PONY
  • 1.11. SIC TRANSIT GLORIA
  • 1.12. OH SHANGHAI
  • 1.13. WHY DO YOU LOVE ME SO MUCH