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Fortress Round My Heart

Artist: Ida Maria
Label: RCA
Category: Music

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Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars

5 reviews
Sales Rank: 122

Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5

UPC: 886973148624
EAN: 0886973148624
ASIN: B00186C05I

Release Date: July 28, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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Condition: new

Tracks:

•	Oh My God
•	Drive Away My Heart
•	Louie
•	l Like you So Much Better When You're Naked
•	Keep Me Warm
•	Forgive Me
•	Stella
•	In The Morning Light
•	Queen Of The World
•	See Me Through

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars

Oh My God! - Exuberant Punk pop August 7, 2008
I'm too old to take any notice of the blurb they print on the front of CD cases and too old to take any notice of the hype or otherwise of the NME et al. I go on my own reaction to performers, and having seen these guys live, I love them. Yes there's a few clunky lyrics and a couple of fillers, but "Oh My God" really hits the mark for me. Pop should be fun, and this is.

1 out of 5 stars

Terrible. August 6, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful

Well Ida Maria fans, get your mouses (mice?) hovering over the "no" button...

Someone I know, mentioning no names, picked up this album in a local music shop, took one look at the "missing link between The Strokes and Amy Winehouse" sticker on the front and put it straight back on the rack. As far as I'm concerned he had a very lucky escape.

First time around all I could stomach was 30 seconds each of the opening four tracks. But I'm nothing if not fair so in the interests of, well, this review I tried again and made it all the way through. Again I was far from impressed.

Make no bones about it, it's the "funny" lyrics to I Like You So Much Better When You're Naked that have got Ida Maria any mainstream attention at all.

Derivative, unoriginal and, frankly, not very good at all. One reviewer suggested she's almost the "female Jack Penate". And to be honest, I would tend to agree. Yes, she is THAT bad.

5 out of 5 stars

Superb! July 30, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful

This is absolutely fab. Ida has the x factor that makes her stand out from the crowd. Really original tunes, great lyrics and performed with raw energy and attitude. This years best album?

3 out of 5 stars

Rock 'N' Troll July 28, 2008
3 out of 6 found this review helpful

Yet another girl with a dream for the main chance.

The industry's continuing obsession with young female writer/performers
would appear to show little sign of abatement.

The playing field, however, is no longer a level one.

My CD copy bears a sticky label (yes another one of those annoying
un-asked-for little additions) in which an NME writer is quoted as saying
"she's the midpoint between the strokes and ms winehouse".
I am unable to perceive a continuum here myself and must therefore pass over this somewhat wayward observation without further preoccupation as to its' elusive meaning. (Ms Winehouse Indeed !!).

Ms Sivertsen's nearest rival would seem to me to be the estimable
Ms Macdonald with whom she shares some stylistic traits.
She lacks, however, the young Scot's charm, humour and canniness (the
latter a quality difficult to measure I will accept).

Perhaps it's a Nordic thing. All those long, dark winter nights.

'Fortress Round My Heart' begins well enough with the strident
'Oh My God' - it's wreckless, repetitive, somewhat folksey drive
a strong and lively opening number.

With 'Drive Away My Heart' the cracks begin to show.

This young woman is pushing her voice (especially in its' upper register)
into corners that it is ill-equipt to deal with.

'Louie' further confirms my anxiety, despite it being a fine uptempo
little number.
By the end of 'I Like You So Much Better When You're Naked' the poor
girl's larynx must have been red and raw.

'Keep Me Warm' slows things down briefly and provides a little respite,
allowing her to demonstrate a small glimmer of interpretive skill.

As far as rockers go 'Forgive Me' is perhaps the album's high point.
Messrs Tornby, Lindberg and Lundin deport themselves admirably.

'Stella' is a stinker.

'Morning Light' and the very fine 'Queen Of The World' lead us with
greater grace to the peaceful conclusion provided by the final and rather
lovely song 'See Me Through'.

So....A bit of a roller coaster but with enough highs and lows
to suggest that some success within the mainstream will follow.

I remain troubled, none-the-less, about the extent to which
Ms Sivertsen is clearly damaging her voice. Without a competent
vocal coach and with the prospect of much live performance
work, she will very likely need the attention of an ENT surgeon
within two years.

She must look after herself because the industry will not.

5 out of 5 stars

unheard, unseen, unbelievable June 14, 2008
6 out of 24 found this review helpful

Premature Appreciation ? - guilty. How can anybody post a review before they've even heard the album ? Disgraceful, I agree - and I promise to review honestly after I receive and hear the album. But I'm just so excited I had to comment already - sorry, but I'm an old married man and I haven't had an explosion in my head since The Jam and The Clash. TILL NOW. Yes, on the strength of "Oh My God", "Forgive Me", "Stella" and "Queen of the World", I can already say that Ida Maria is something very special - and thus I assume her debut is going to be superb.