Theresa Andersson, Hummingbird, Go!
Featured Album
A playfully ramshackle collection of songs suited for as many different occasions as they can find.
On Hummingbird,Go!, Theresa Andersson counts as a citizen of two vastly different worlds. A longtime New Orleans denizen invested in a scene that spans decades, she played host to none other than Allen Toussaint during recording (of the song "Now I Know," with the legendary Touissant — as the story goes —"ferried in his champagne-colored Rolls Royce"). Then, as a native of Sweden, she also hooked up with the young Swedish indie-pop luminaries Tobias Froberg, Ane Brun, and Linus Larsson (a producer with ties to Peter, Bjorn & John). Somewhere in the middle lies Andersson, an enchanting singer-songwriter with an ear for time-tested atmosphere and suggestive eccentricity. "Na Na Na" starts off with a mix of moody horns (think the kind of sax favored by the old band Morphine) and clusters of drums that tumble repeatedly out of nowhere. Songs like "Birds Fly Away" and "The Waltz" sound almost like they could fit on an album by Norah Jones, but they ooze considerably more personality while spinning out skewed details— "Birds" by way of pizzicato strings and jaunty percussion, "The Waltz" by way of what are apparently soda bottles filled with liquid and tapped for sound. The overall result is a playfully ramshackle collection of vaguely jazzy, vaguely folky, and vaguely weird songs suited for as many different occasions as they can find.
