Andi Kristine – Magic

Gentle, calming, overall rather nice.

Tom: We’ve been sent this by Mar, who writes: “I just discovered this Icelandic artist while I was visiting last week, she is so friendly and sweet, and think she’d make a great feature!”

Tim: Sounds good – let’s hear it.

Tom: Just one problem with that: a little research reveals that Mar is actually this artist’s booking agent, and ‘just discovered her last week’ is a blatant lie.

Tim: AGH! We’ve been LIED TO?!?!?!

Tom: Mar was quite lovely about it when I emailed back and let them know they were rumbled. Oh, and a quick warning: while this video technically isn’t porn, I still wouldn’t like to explain why I’m watching it to a boss or family member.

Tom: Well, friendly and sweet she may be, but is the music any good? There are two biases I’ve got here: on the one hand, the duplicitous agent trying to dupe us; on the other, startlingly revealing clothing. Hopefully those two will pretty much cancel each other out.

Tim: I shall try to cast both those things from my memory in my judgement, and say: gentle, calming, overall rather nice. Nothing over the top, just pleasantly understated fairly decent stuff.

Tom: Aye, it’s… um. Not bad? I guess? Perhaps my brain’s too addled from trying to give an unbiased opinion, but I can’t seem to form any real view on it. It’s pleasant enough, I suppose, but it’s not going to be sticking in my head for long.

Tim: Sounds about right. I won’t go heading off to buy the album, but I wouldn’t turn it off if it came on the radio.

Tom: It’s not the glowing endorsement that Mar wanted, but hey, it could’ve been worse: it could’ve been INJU5TICE.

Tim: That reminds me, one positive thing I’ll say for that lot: it’s, what, two years since we reviewed that track? I can still remember the hook from it, though.