Album Review

Ida Maria – Oh My God

• 14th Jan 2009

Through the oblique pop pushed debut album, ‘Fortress Around My Heart’, Norway’s quirky and exuberant 24 year old vixen, Ida Maria Borli Silvertson gave those who like their music “out of the box” a veritable feast of the obscure, quirky, self-confident and passionate.

Now, ‘Oh My God’, one of the potent pop pearls concealed within this album, displays all of the seventies guitar turning, slightly eerie yet strangely crisp New Wave vocals that reveal soul foraging and defiance. IDA uses this to provoke and captivate in equal measures.

What is most noticeable in this sauntering single is the sheer independence that this Norwegian pop-let oozes. Despite coming from an obscure little town, Ida is suddenly realising that there is a great deal of universal appeal in the outlook that has grown out of her solitary upbringing.