Annika And The Forest is a Swedish Electro Pop singer based in France.
The latest album release MÊME LA NUIT “Even the night” … lets in a glimpse of light in the dark – and it is exactly where Annika Grill’s third album takes us with a
new-found magical pop-potion. “It seems to me that I have crossed two landscapes,” says Annika. "The first, Chromatic, summoned the colours of the rainbow, and the
northern night. The second, She, gave way to the light, as if someone had decided to light a lamp in this room where I was growing up, before finding out who I was in a mirror opposite me. Then comes the natural light which is constantly changing. Even at night, there is daylight." With this third album Annika Grill signs a catchy pop
manifesto, demanding yet accessible all at once, like the Cardigans hits of the 90s.
Is this the Swedish touch? Maybe so, especially since the album was recorded between Gothenburg and Paris. The album was recorded with the singer's faithful accomplices: it was produced by Charles Storm, mastered by Chab, some songs were co-produced with Maxime Delpierre, guitarist Edith Fambuena and drummer Zoé
Hochberg’s participated in compositions or arrangements. To this we add Arthur Simonini’s violins and Anna Bylund’s chorus.
It is a feminine album, where many moods are displayed, without being too exposed. Modesty matters, poetics too, and the unbearable lightness of being is too precious to be contaminated with unnecessary frills.
Like the vast artistic culture of Annika Grill, the influences are eclectic and marked by the rhythms and dissonances of David Bowie's latest album, Lazarus, but also by Billie Eilish, Agnes Obel, Beth Gibbons, Connan Mockasin, Nina Simone, Jay-Jay Johanson, James Blake or Damon Albarn. What do they have in common? They inhabit their musical convictions with a pop ambition. In “Even the Night”, the melodies take flight, served by the groove of the bass and the charisma of the synthesizers. The organic is combined with electronic determination, and Annika's voice is totally free. A glow in the darkness of our tumultuous times as well as of our intimate melancholies, a glow impossible to forget… even at night.
