WORTH A LOOK?: ****

TRACKLIST: I’ll Always Be Your Girl; Jellyfish; Do It Again; Kiss The Sky; Two Years; Hush Baby, Hurry Slowly; Fort Knox; There’s Always More That I Could Say; Have You Heard This Song Before?; Eternal Sunshine

Sigrid muses on change, friendship, keeping it all in and experimentation on her 3rd and most musically adventurous album which entered the UK chart at 12 this week, her 1st not to make the top 5.

• Read on for reasons including how Sigrid’s lyrics are at their most interesting, her performance is front and centre and the pop songs show more musical depth

She turns 30 next year and the irony that her least successful album in the UK she spends so much time in is her most soul-bearing, boasts the Scandi Adele moments fans of her live work will be familiar with and yet places less emphasis on the dancefloor bangers that have seen her make the UK top 15 with Strangers and Don’t Feel Like Crying will not be lost on her.

1st single from this album Jellyfish was a song of the week for us in July and we said it was ‘the sound of schools breaking up for summer, lotion lathered on lazy sunbathers and the moon lighting the way home after a giddy evening’.

Lyrically it has friendship feels and follows I’ll Always Be Your Girl on this album where there is grown up but ill-advised sitar sounds and lyrical romantic disenchantment with ‘Lads, lads, lads’ and the concise ‘Not really on brand of me to put up with this shit, I’ll Always Be Your Girl and I hate it’.

If you’ve seen Sigrid live you’ll know how much of an Adele moment she has in her songbook with 1st album track Dynamite which offers the proactive and incendiary: ‘You’re safe as a mountain but know that I’m Dynamite‘ to a prospective paramour.

Musically 2nd single Fort Knox is what pop titans ABBA should be releasing now but appears to be the lyrical mirror to Dynamite, where a desire for experimentation has sparked a need for introspection.

Instead of offering to blow up the world of a future love she suggests: ‘This time I’m gonna lock my love in a box And safeguard it like I never kissed you, never taught you, never played you, never f*cked you.’

And yet in most recent single Two Years there appears to be some personal growth as Sigrid reflects on a length of time and distance (between Oslo and Tokyo) and asks: ‘What are you running from? Why did you let me go when you wanna be my woman?’

What it all means we can’t really be sure but Sigrid appears to be packing quite a lot of life experiences into her young years and that makes for interesting listening.

Unlike other artists releasing albums this autumn Sigrid has been playing much of this new set at festivals and has completed intimate UK gigs around its release before heading off on a world tour where we see her at Camden Roundhouse in March before 2026 US gigs supporting Ed Sheeran.

There’s Always More That I Could Say is the 10-strong album’s title and that in itself bodes well for the future especially ending as it does with Eternal Sunshine‘s: ‘I wanna find myself in a new bed after I drink you out of my mind. I wanna paint you out of the picture. I want Eternal Sunshine.’

If things don’t work out as a solo act Sigrid’s already written for others and we’re particularly enjoying her contributions to Sophie Ellis Bextor’s recent album.

Check out Sigrid’s latest LP because her lyrics are at their most interesting, her performance is front and centre and the pop songs show more musical depth and experimentation than ever before.

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