A God-awful Small Affair

nope this is all wrong start again Rating: what happened to Sun of a Gun/10 Highlights: n/a Avoid: it all Artwork Watch: How 70s. Up next: Lady GaGa

In the way of Scandinavian popstars we haven't exactly been neglected in the past few years. Robyn, Lykke Li and Jens Lekmann have all come along and provided some of the genre's finest recent albums and tracks, suggesting there's something more in Sweden than excellent healthcare, beautiful women and flat-pack furniture (it sounds like a haven. I must go there some day.) However, Oh Land is Danish. So why I wrote that above I'm not really sure. Having worked on her follow-up to the much-unnoticed (and generally quite poor) 2008 record 'Fauna' with Pharrell Williams and Dan Carey, a man who's mixed and produced for Franz Ferdinand, Sia and La Roux, she's back with a stronger team and greater potential to launch into a pretty dense and hard-fought pop competition. Openers 'Break the Chain' and 'Perfection' are pretty flawless in terms of the production; the latter indulging us with harps and strings to kick things off luxuriously, the form...