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Swedish Grammy Award-winner Lisa Miskovsky is making a concerted effort to break out of her home country and make it over here. With her stunning looks and her knack of writing even more beautiful pop-rock tunes, she will surely have a pretty good chance of doing just that...
Fallingwater is a singer-songwriter pop album very much in the shape of fellow Scandinavian Lene Marlin, of Sitting Down Here fame, and although there isn't anything on there with that kind of chart potential, it has plenty of great moments. Lady Stardust is her biggest hit so far, and is the song she closed her recent performance supporting Rob Thomas at Academy 1 with. Strangely, it isn't really the highlight of the album, as it does seem to drag a little bit after the chorus. A Brand New Day may be slightly cliched and simplistic, but a great melody is a great melody and not even a chorus of "Hey hey hey hey, it's a brand new day" can bring it down, especially when listening to it on a sunny morning. It's upbeat and very catchy, as is Sing To Me, which has a bubbling synthesizer that makes it sound a bit like No Doubt. Midnight Sun and Butterfly Man are both very lovely songs, showing off her shimmering voice and the excellently warm production of co-writer Jocke Berg and Simon Nordberg. Even the slight songs like Restless Heart sound good and the production really glosses over the weaker points of Fallingwater. Not that there are too many though, unlike a lot of albums of this nature, there are memorable songs running all the way through and shows that Lisa Miskovsky really is so much more than just another pretty face to go on posters...
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