★★★★★
Tweet Beauty in Simplicity Ane Brun's decade-long career has seen the Norwegian folk artist craft a sound similar to a fusion of Regina Spektor and Of Monsters and Men. Her music definitely has the personality necessary for a successful and unique singer-songwriter, while at the same time maintaining a distinct sound influenced by Scandinavian folk music. Her most recent album Rarities strips down her style to mellow covers of other artists and acoustic one-takes of older songs...
- www.mxdwn.com
2013-11-21
★★★★★
The last ten years have been quite momentous for Ane Brun. Born Ane Brunvoll in Molde, Norway in 1976, she has in that time become one of Scandinavia's foremost singer-songwriters, won three prestigious Spellemannprisen awards, and become a fixture on her country's charts. Her sort-of-double album It All Starts With One was delayed by Brun's touring commitments with Peter Gabriel, but upon release in 2011 cracked the Swedish charts and felt like a mature artistic statement from a confident,...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-10-28
★★★★★
Wow, that's quite a statement of intent and confidence. Releasing a compilation album of your first decade in music with a whopping 32 songs across two discs isn't the usual way of doing things, especially when it's not even the requisite special edition version. But three number one albums in her native Norway, most of which were never officially released in the UK, have given Ane Brun a level of confidence that there's a wider audience for Songs 2003-2013...
- music.thedigitalfix.com
2013-06-14
★★★★★
Ane Brun recently won the Scandinavian equivalent of the Grammy award for Best New Artist based on the strength of what's poised to be her major breakthrough, the quiet and gentle It All Starts with One. The accolade should come as no surprise as the album is expertly crafted throughout and boasts a song that features the vocal talents of First Aid Kit and another that features José González. Those two names alone would've been cause for anyone to take notice...
- www.popmatters.com
2012-05-03
★★★★★
I first encountered Norwegian singer/songwriter Ane Brun on art-rock master Peter Gabriel's orchestral New Blood tour...
- www.pastemagazine.com
2012-05-03
★★★★★
It really shouldn?t be a surprise to find that there were enough tracks recorded but not released from the original ?It All Begins With One? sessions that she was able to release them on an expanded ?Deluxe? edition. What is surprising is that they are of such a high quality that the new tracks sound as though they were always part of the album...
- www.music-news.com
2012-04-30
★★★★★
It's not often one hears a new recording that immediately grabs the listener as something to which you'll need to listen over and over. However, Norwegian Ane Brun's new (and eighth) album, It All Starts With One, does exactly that. It is full of layers of emotion, panned out across her beautiful and multi-faceted voice (a voice whose incredible, haunting versatility may be familiar to some listeners as a collaborator on Peter Gabriel's recent New Blood album)...
- www.glidemagazine.com
2012-04-19
★★★★★
There seems to be a new, irresistible, if rather gentle force blowing in from Sweden. Downbeat electro-pop duo Niki And The Dove are amongst the hottest tips for 2012, Lyyke Li has produced one of the albums of the year with Wounded Rhymes, while Robyn is now the poster-girl for feel-bad heartbroken disco. Ane Brun is from Norway, but is pretty much an honourary Swede, having lived in Stockholm for the past decade...
- www.musicomh.com
2011-12-13
★★★★★
Just as we are assaulted on all sides by the excesses of Lady Gaga or the other dowager divas a genuine musical star in the shape of Ane Brun drops into our laps and an incredibly fresh release this is...
- www.music-news.com
2011-12-07
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