Fortress Round My Heart

Ida Maria - Fortress Round My Heart

Fortress Round My Heart
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Artist: Ida Maria
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2009-04-14
Music Label: Mercury Records
Soundtracks:
  1. Oh My God
  2. Morning Light
  3. I Like You So Much Better When You're Naked
  4. Stella
  5. Keep Me Warm
  6. Forgive Me
  7. Queen Of The World
  8. Louie
  9. Drive Away My Heart
  10. In The End

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Free Music Review: Fun album, with a slow and fast assorment of both lyrics and music
Hit: 5 Stars

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I had a lot of fun listening to this album, and am somewhat surprised at at some of the comments. Yes this is a varied assortment, but with possible exception of a couple of tracks, it is a very musical compilation. I felt immediately comfortable with Ida's voice, as I found it similar to a couple of other favorite artists.

In the end: Very nice vocal and guitar and piano ballad about hope for the future, sounds like a cross of Sara Bareilles and Jaymay with a sprinkling of Joan Baez and Judy Collins and Susan Tedeschi. A

Drive away my heart: Unusual combination of slow lyrics and fast heavy beat music. Suzi Quatro like throaty and a bit raspy vocals. The drums fit in with the "drive away my heart" theme. A

Louie: This is the 80's style pop tune. Great harmonizing stretching out Louieeeeeee! A

Queen of the world: Starts out frantic then around the middle finds its purpose. B

Forgive me: Lost love song, with another 80'sw style incessant metal guitar and drums beat. Sadly never jells. C

Keep me warm: Beautiful percussive jazz bar style poetic ballad. Excellent Ida showpiece. Would bee right at home in Grey's Anatomy. (I swear I did not know before hand as one reviewer pointed out that it indeed was on Grey's Anatomy already) .A+

Stella: Hooker "how much do you give away to stay loved?" B-

I like you so much better....: A fast pop song likable for good hook beats and lines. Interestingly enough I do not think its her best, but its fun. By the way the lyrics eventually get to I like you and "I like ME so much better" when.... B+

Oh my God: Terrific, I have to ask at which point do you wonder "think I'm in control?", "find a cure for my life" and exclaim "Oh my God". How about if you put a "Fortress `round my heart" and it will never be an issue. Besides being eminently catchy its deep on many levels. Love to hear comments on what you think its about. A+

So 9 out of 10 songs I liked a lot. Because tempos vary a lot in this album, and some songs are suitable for a smoky lounge and others for a frat party, it may not be for everyone. But if your tastes were ever describes as a slightest bit eclectic, you too should like this a lot.

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Born and raised in the icy Norwegian stillness of the Arctic Circle, Ida Maria brought a new cool to the top of the pops when her first single release in the UK, "I Like You So Much Better When You're Naked" hit #13 on the national chart and sent her debut album, FORTRESS ROUND MY HEART straight inside the Top 40.

FORTRESS ROUND MY HEART - which drew 4 star UK reviews in Q magazine and The Guardian - has now been signed to Mercury Records, and will be distributed by Fontana in a close collaboration with a March 24th digital release. "I Like You So Much Better When You're Naked" was officially released as a digital single in the U.S. earlier this week (on February 24th). Ida Maria's song "Oh My God" will be used in all the Gossip Girl promos for this season. Originally airing 2/23, the promos will continue for months ahead!

On the heels of her 30-show, sold-out headlining UK tour in November, four critically acclaimed showcases in Los Angeles and New York, and NME's prestigious Shockwaves Awards show earlier this month - Ida Maria and her band (Stefan Törnby on lead guitar, bassist Johannes Lindberg, drummer Olle Lundin) will play their first U.S. tour in March. Kickoff is the South By Southwest (SXSW) Music and Media Confer­ence in Austin, Texas, March 18-22. Dates will continue in New Orleans, Atlanta, Washington DC, West Chester (PA), Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Boston. Ida Maria will return to the U.S. for a performance at the Coachella Festival in California on April 18th.

24-year old Ida (pronounced ee-dah) Maria grew up in Nesna, Norway, a university town of fewer than 2000 people north of the 66th latitude. When she moved to the great city of Bergen as a teen, she rubbed shoulders with everyone from metal bands to avant garde jazz musicians and bluegrass singer-songwriters. There she "discovered the inner beast that was hiding in my vocal chords." At the same time, she developed into a formidable songwriter, informed by a benign variant of synaesthesia, a rare condition in which perception in one sense mode arouses imagery from another, so that one can see sounds or hear colors, for example.

Following the success of "I Like You So Much Better When You're Naked," "Oh My God" was issued as a new single, and earned a 4 star review from RollingStone.com. Time magazine placed the song at # 3 on their "Top Ten List of Everything in 2008," praising her "powerhouse voice - deep, commanding, a little masculine, exotic, too, like Nico, but with an abundance rather than an absence of feeling."

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