★★★★★
A smorgasbord of styles ... Oh Land Buy it from Buy the CDDownload as MP3Oh LandWishboneCD2013 Nanna Oland Fabricius once dreamed of being a ballet dancer, only to have her aspirations curtailed by injury. So instead she opted for the no less competitive discipline of left-field Scandinavian pop music, and this second album sees her making a decent fist of it...
- www.theguardian.com
2013-11-15
★★★★★
Nanna Øland Fabricius is 28-year-old Dane who's been making music under the name of Oh Land since 2008. Her last album, 2011's self-titled effort, reached the Top 5 in her native Denmark but made little impact elsewhere, despite the presence of two stellar singles in the form of Son Of A Gun and White Nights.
If its follow-up, Wish Bone, is designed for sure-fire commercial success, it does a very good job of concealing it...
- www.musicomh.com
2013-10-07
★★★★★
The press release for Danish singer Oh Land's charming but instantly forgettable Wishbone trumpets the album as "left-field pop," but there's nothing here to out-weird the current middle ground of modern pop music, which these days is plenty odd itself. Produced by TV on the Radio guitarist Dave Sitek, Wishbone has a generally effervescent quality, but its focus on repetitive instrumental loops and sparkling but static backdrops makes it less fleet-footed and dynamic than most contemporary...
- www.slantmagazine.com
2013-09-27
★★★★★
It feels like I've written Approved pieces about Oh Land a lot already. Actually, I have. Well, a few, at least. But listening to new track 'My Boxer', she now seems a long way from the artist I first wrote about in 2010. Back then she was making dusty, light jazz-influenced pop, while for her 2011 eponymous second album she moved more towards a mainstream pop sound, though with an experimental edge that stopped her from quite crossing over...
- www.thecmuwebsite.com
2013-07-16
★★★★★
Despite the early promise displayed on introductory single 'Wolf & I', the second full-length from indie songstress Oh Land, is a decidedly middling affair. A massive deal in her native Denmark, while our Brit gals look to orchestral and retro styles to affect the appearance of substance, in the forward-thinking tradition of Scandi-pop Nanna Fabricius' stab at class and credibility involves balancing a platter of voguish electronic tropes, mostly of the post-dubstep ilk...
- drownedinsound.com
2011-12-12
★★★★★
It's a rogue's trick to try and brutishly nail together every new female singer to every other female artist in the field of popular song, as if a higher vocal register and lack of testosterone is the hallmark of a shared identity. That said, the musical reference points on this, the re-released second album from Danish songwriter/producer Oh Land aka , stick out as clearly and as densely as the quills on a porcupine, and it doesn't take a chauvinist to spot that they're all modern, and they're...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2013-04-23
★★★★★
Though a celebrated artist abroad, Danish songstress Oh Land - aka Nanna Øland Fabricius - has not yet captured the hearts of those in-the-know down under. However, if her sophomore, self-titled record is any measure, her modest profile may be erased yet in favour of serious recognition. In all probability, Oh Land just might lay claim to being the best electro-pop release to have flown under the radar in 2011...
- www.theaureview.com
2011-09-12
★★★★★
Oh Land's self-titled, major-label debut opens with a delicate orchestral flourish, an early indication that we might be in for something more than a bit precious. Given that Oh Land (nom de disc of Danish singer-songwriter Nanna Øland Fabricius) was a trained ballerina before she decided to embark on a music career following a back injury, this shouldn't come as a surprise. But then the song's "We Will Rock You" stomp kicks in and it's clear that Oh Land likes to play with contrast...
- www.slantmagazine.com
2011-03-14