Album Review: Bladed - The Ballad of the Hammer and the Nail (2020)
Picture Credit: Bladed Bladed - The Ballad of the Hammer and the Nail Release: August 28, 2020 Label: Crispin Glover Records / Noisolution Format: CD / Digital Length: 41:08 Genre: Folk / Jazz / Neo Classic Origin: Oslo , Norway "The Ballad of the Hammer and the Nail" is the fourth album by Norway's extravagant artist Anita Kaasbøll , also known as Bladed. The musician has in the meantime moved from her hometown Trondheim to the capital Oslo and has written, recorded and released nine new songs full of mesmerizing atmospheric and sophisticatedly beauitful music for us. Kaasbøll 's music is artistic, avantgardistic and not easy to describe by using common genre or stylistic devices. Jazzy structures merge with Nordic Folk, acoustic Rock and Modern Classicism with the elegance of a fairy and the strength of an elk. Bladed enchants the whole mind with the extraordinary worlds of sound she creates on her new album. In the past Kaasbøll was sometimes compare...