Till It's All Forgotten

Farao, aka Norwegian multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter Kari Jahnsen, could have taken a more predictable road on her debut album 'Till It's All Forgotten'. We should all be thankful she didn't.

Jahnsen's work defies categorization and commodification at every turn. The instrumentation on Till It's All Forgotten is rich—electronics, horns, synth strings, piano, a standard guitar-based rock band, vocal manipulation—and though all that layering and texture could feel heavy and cluttered, it rarely does. The lyrical themes circle back to the gaps in human communication and the desire that grows in those damp, mossy spaces left open between us because we're too scared of our own shadows to look into them.

It's not in the least bit easy to create music that sounds truly like you and nobody else, but Jahnsen manages to do so.