Heartbeat Radio

2009

Vinyl, CD and digital album

Suggested reading

• Boston Globe review
  “The opening track, “Good Luck,’’ would hit No. 1 on the Billboard chart in a different era’’
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• Allmusic review
  “Rather than being some kind of surprising U-turn, the album is a consolidation of everything he's done so far. It has his best songwriting, most effective vocals, and most accomplished sound, and stands as some of the best modern pop around at the end of the decade’’
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• “Heartbeat radio” LA Times review
  “No matter what genre he's working in -- fuzzy garage rock, breezy vocal jazz, acoustic folk-pop -- this young Norwegian singer-songwriter crafts catchier choruses than many musicians who've been working twice as long as he has. His refrains always pay off”
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• New York Times live review
  “Words & Music” directly maps romance onto songwriting, while “Don’t Look Now” may be the only pop song to mention “recoupable royalties.”
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