Album Review
Ane Brun - Changing Of The SeasonsAne Brun – Changing Of The Seasons

Ane Brun is a singer songwriter from Norway, she has been in the music business since 2003 and has gone on a released 5 albums mainly in Norway, Sweden and America and now she has her chance to release her music upon the UK and the rest of Europe.

The latest studio album by Ane Brun is called ‘Changing Of The Seasons’ and it is being released in the UK on the 2nd February, you might not of heard the name Ane Brun yet but you might have heard her music without knowing as a cover version she did of Cyndi Lauper’s ‘True Colour’s is currently featuring in a huge Sky TV campaign for their high definition services.

First things first, Ane Brun has a beautiful voice you have to give her that, her voice is one of those cute beautiful sounding indie-folk voices, but if listened to, too much you might find yourself drifting off to sleep like I did.

The album opens with ‘The Treehouse Song’ and the song actually happens to be my favourite song from the album, the song has a really quirky quick vibe about it whilst everything manages to sound quite low key, the vocals are beautiful and enough to send a chill down your spine whilst the lyrics are quite witty and well written with Ane singing “We were going to live in a treehouse and make babies, we were going to bury our ex-lovers and their ghosts’.

‘The Fall’ is another’ song that really stands out, once again everything is quite low key with the instrumental side of things kept to a minimal leaving Ane to shine on the vocal front, in fact the song reminds me of snow and the cold as it’s the kind of instrumental that’s playing whilst watching those old Christmas films when it starts to snow.

‘The Puzzle’ sounds quite gothic and eerie and also reminds me of the theme song to The Snowman all at the same time, well that’s until Ane goes into over drive with her fast flowing vocals which really helps bring the song to life and stand out so much from the other tracks on the album.

‘Changing Of The Seasons’ features 15 tracks and runs for just over 50minutes and features some really strong and stunning moments, but I find that I have to listen to the album in different stages, for example if I listen to the album from start to finish in one listen then I know I will fall asleep as the songs have quite a chilled out sleepy feel about them and as the album goes on you can’t pick one song out from the other due to the chilled out nature of them, but saying that the album is quality but it’s going to take a lot of work to get enjoyment out of this as I can imagine most people would take a quick listen to each track and not come back to it the album again as the pace doesn’t change throughout, but give it time listen to a few songs at a time and you will start to enjoy the work of Ane Brun.

3.5/5

Review by Trigger
 Band Members
Ane Brun - Band
Ane Brun
 Track Listing
1. The Treehouse Song
2. The Fall
3. The Puzzle
4. My Star
5. Ten Seconds
6. Changing Of The Seasons
7. Lullaby For Grown-Ups
8. Raise My Head
9. Armour
10 Round Table Conference
11. Gillian
12. Don't Leave
13. Linger With Pleasure
14. True Colors (UK Edition)
15. Big In Japan (UK Edition)
 Band Related Links
Ane Brun Myspace
 Review Score Code
- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
- What Was That?