This latest single from one of Belwood’s Spotlight artists is a tranquil tune brimming with love and longing. All about trying to find somewhere with the solitude and landscape akin to her native Norway, ‘Alaska’ is the kind of song that leaves you wanting to bask in it’s warm glow and forget all the troubles in the world. The childlike doodles of the animated music video somehow match perfectly with the poignant Americana, like a bittersweet yearning for an innocence lost. The latest single from her debut album No One Knows That You’re Lost, ‘Alaska’ is the latest step towards Tina Refsnes becoming one of the most profound and moving singer-songwriters of recent years.
Tina Refsnes
Playlist: Sept/Oct 2015
Spotlight!: Tina Refsnes
Rising star Tina Refsnes creates music as beautiful as the striking Norwegian landscape that inspired her. Influenced by such artists as Joni Mitchell and Neil Young, she has created her own brand of affecting Americana. Her latest single ‘I Don’t Know‘ starts with a simple beat and a meandering acoustic guitar, but soon builds to leave you feeling like a leaf drifting on an autumnal breeze. Along with her previous single ‘Upside Down Clouds’, it evokes a vivid vignette of the remote breathtaking setting in which they were written. Her tender voice and the sparse arrangement hark back to the 70s heyday of singer/songwriters wherein I’m sure she’d feel right at home with her rigorous writing ethic making sure that her songs were captured just right.
Fans of The Staves, First Aid Kit, Tobias Jesso Jr and Sufjan Stevens should be on the lookout for her debut album ‘No One Knows That You’re Lost’ out 6th November
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