Hello Saferide – Retrospective
Posted on | January 8, 2010 | No Comments
Hello Saferide – The Quiz
Hello Saferide – Loneliness is better when you’re not alone
Hello Saferide – Lund
“What would you say if I asked of you / out of loneliness, out of loneliness / Could I be with you?”
Hello Saferide is led by Sweden’s Annika Norlin, who also has worked a day job as a journalist. The lyrics, written in English for this band and in Swedish for her other project, Säkert!, are telling and vulnerable. She’s scared of feet. She’s smart and she likes to read. And she rakes over her adolescence to reveal the still burning coals.
“One of them would have gotten my virginity / but he didn’t know that back then, did he!”
Wikipedia says that the band is twee pop and it’s hard to argue. The chords are major keys with pleasing progressions. The songs make for pleasant background music. When listened to carefully, they are even more comforting. Wrapped together they are like tomato soup and grilled cheese on a cold day.
“And if I fall, would you pick me up? / And if I fall, would you pick me up?”
They have two albums and one EP to their name. The LPs – Introducing . . . and More Modern Short Stories From . . . – are both good, but the EP – Would You Let Me Play This EP Ten Times A Day? Is the strongest effort. Cherry picking the collection yields a very strong best of, but the EP stands on its own. One only hopes that the clever earnestness of Hello Saferide wears better than the clever disingenuiness of The Beautiful South.
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