Comments for Nordenstam, Stina, Dynamite

Stina has made a darker, more industrial-style album, but her beautiful voice is still there on top of the music.

I''ll just cover what''s new here: The music is almost guitar based industrial: harsh, distorted guitars, thumping beats, violins wailing and swooping down at the listener, and strange samples, beats and electronic noises designed to scare rather than move the body. The songs? They''re darker. Much darker. If you thought Murder In Mairyland Park and Alone At Night were unnerving, this is a whole new ball game. Songs like "Mary Bell", a lullabye-like history of the child-killer of the same name. "The Man With The Gun" where Stina wonders what it would be like to be killed. "Until" where she threatens to stalk her ex-lover until he succumbs to insanity, and "Dynamite" where she actually blows him up. The best two tracks here are "CQD" and "Down Desire Avenue". The first, a dire warning to an uncaring lover, is the closest to a love song this album gets, and is also the creepiest, grooviest and (along with the next song) perhaps the most compelex piece of music Stina has made, even as an instrumental piece I''d love it to death. "Down Desire Avenue" continues this and takes it one step further, a maelstrom of muted guitars and shrieking violins, overlaid with jagged beats in a song about the degradation of society. Even better than the first two albums! 10 out of 10.

Stina has discovered electric guitar!!