Disc rating|The eighth album of the former mainstream pop star’s adulthood exudes hope and cautious self-discipline.
Author Juha Itkonen recently characterized in Anna magazine how the woman left behind in Finnish pop songs typically becomes empowered, while the man is left to sulk bitterly.
Attention joined Pate Mustajärvi to the album, but Itkonen could have raised it as a good counterexample Jonna Tervomaan fresh Superaurinko– disk.
Tervomaa’s first album in seven years sneaks right into a theme album of adult empowerment: the songs wake up to the beginning and the face of something new. The music embodies hope as the super sun rises and energizes.
Emma Awards Tervomaa, who made a hit twenty years ago and reached platinum sales, described the album’s lengthy work at Sound as a trick track.
During the process, the world stopped due to the pandemic, the producer and record company changed once. The singer-songwriter, who celebrated his fifties last year, moved back to Forssa after thirty years in Helsinki, which sounds like a retreat for the former mainstream pop star.
That’s where Tervomaa’s contemporary and closest comparison is Maija Vilkkumaa has hit the nostalgia gear and conquered arenas and major Finnish pop festivals Just life – enjoying the aftereffect, Tervomaa has activated and positioned itself on a smaller scale – either out of desire or out of necessity.
However, the eighth album of Tervomaa’s adult life is a clear success. It doesn’t hurt that the songs have an almost tribute-like connection to the musician’s years of popularity and the easily approachable radio pop rock of the turn of the millennium. The retro look of contemporary rock is complemented by machine tones emerging here and there – just like in 1999 I can’t get one in the hit.
Although an even-quality album lacks case songs and moments that stand out enough from the average basic pop line, the music conveys an attractively dedicated spirit.
The safe overall look is enriched by Tervomaa’s moderately thrown interpretation, which at times even remotely reminds Fiona Apple’s according to the brand records of recent years Fetch the Bolt Cuttersilla the animation presented.
According to Tervomaa, the album was supposed to be emphasized quiet, but the result rolls in a relaxed outward orientation and, considering the multigenerational process, completely natural.
Some songs like In front of the sun and Wowowwow, would have sat on the radio twenty years ago, but in today’s climate they sound as awkwardly recycled as Ultra Bra’s loose novelty single.
At a time when the personal no longer manifests the political, Tervomaa could find brave people to text about the state of the world in a more honest way. Based on the musician’s interviews and updates, you could find something more interesting to say.