simply beautiful - no more, no less

The Norwegian Marit Larsen had in 2009 in Germany and Switzerland, her big break with "IF A Song Could Get Me You". It was the perfect pop song. Quick a compilation of their first two albums were dumped on the market for the local market. There were wonderful little songs inspired by folk, musicals, from Abba and many more. She enchanted at live concerts with her joie de vivre. It was nice to see how she was glad girlish about the enthusiasm of the audience. Then it was a little quieter. They crumbled to writing songs to New York and came back with SPARK. The Rolling Stone wrote, inter alia, "The bottom line remains music for apartments in which espresso machines are set into the wall and even shorts strike sparks." My apartment is not so, and I can for the music and the great special voice (also of Rolling Stone for "Disney Channel's voice") heat. The album is not an unqualified success, but it has 10 songs, all of which are worth listening to. Anyone familiar with the first two albums, will not discover new facets here. Often the arrangements reminiscent of "older" songs from her. That's the difficult second album (which the third is yes) after the madness overnight success but still completely ok. Overall, it is true what has been said elsewhere. It is not of this world pain songs aunts, where you want to throw halfway through the CD into the nearest river. It remains in the subdued songs always the Spark / Spark of the "good feeling" or call it optimism. This mood carries over and that's just good times.