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Now finally Jane Helen’s debut album here. Many will probably remember their very so refreshing appearance at the Eurovision Song Contest last year, others have probably experienced the band live. Still others were joined by their EP “huh” in 2007. They have also been playlisted on German and American radio stations. But the first time people beyond your circle of friends became seriously aware of the band when they were in 2004 in the finals of “The National Finals Of The Global Battle Of The Bands”. From there to here has just gone up.
Musically Jane Helen luckily enough genre exceeded ends that they can not be stored in any genre. Here is a wonderful blend of metal riffs, a rhythm section that stomps right into your cortex, vocals that go from fragile to definitive outbreak and not least melodies that inspire and withstand some more listening than one afterparty allows. It’s quiet ballad-like songs like “Comfertable Prey” and more metal-oriented songs like “Recipe For A Perfect Night”. In between are a number of songs printed planted in rock mode with songs that have sporingsfrø to Soundgarden, Runaways and Skunk Anansie. Nevertheless, this is first and foremost Jane Helen.
They are not reinventing the wheel but delivers one surprising breath of fresh air in a genre that has long been a dying dinosaur. In the past year there have been more and more signs that the rock is on the mend, in this respect, Jane Helen helps to correct the impression. The band goes fearlessly to work and have made a hard and catchy afterparty classic for those who like such things, at the same time the album listener friendly, has a very good production and are carefully arranged so that the songs appear as independent entities but nevertheless it is a re-ruling song to song so that one gets a feeling album. Not least because the band manages to combine the delicate m