Rebekka Karijord - We Become Ourselves (Deluxe Edition) (2015)

“For me, the organ is a metaphor for the heart,” KARIJORD reveals. “Gustaf built it with branches, exhaust pipes and such. I feel it symbolises the romantic side of the record as well as the presence of nature in the lyrics.” These are qualities found in abundance throughout a record that hints at a wide range of influences that include the likes of Cat Power, PJ Harvey, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Moondog, Robert Wyatt and, indeed, a significant amount of instrumental music that most likely accounts for the imaginative arrangements. ‘Prayer’ is a stripped back affair that slowly develops through the understated employment of a male choir who reappear on the growling ‘Save Yourself’, which also features a boys choir as moving as that found on Talk Talk’s remarkable ‘I Believe In You’; ‘Multicolored Hummingbird’’s delicate, nimble nature belies a melody that lingers long and heavy, while ‘You Make Me Real’ is so gentle as to barely exist.

TRACKLIST

01. Prayer
02. Use My Body while It's Still Young
03. We Become Ourselves
04. Oh Brother
05. Your Love
06. Multicolored Hummingbird
07. Save Yourself
08. You Make Me Real
09. Ode To What Was Lost
10. Bandages
11. Giant
12. Given Time
13. Mine To Keep
14. On Our Way
15. Silence Is a Drum
16. You Make Me Real (Bobacken Version)
17. Cry Me a River
18. Prayer (Demo)
19. Use My Body while It's Still Young (Demo)
20. Save Yourself (Demo)
21. Multicolored Hummingbird (Demo)
22. Bandages (Demo)