Emmelie de Forest // Rainmaker

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Has it really been a year since Emmelie de Forest won the Eurovision with her song Only Teardrops? Apparently so. And Rainmaker, the first new music to be heard since the release of her album, last year, was made this year’s official Eurovision theme.

It carries a familiar celtic/tribal feel to it, so not a million miles away from what we’ve heard before and it won’t be long until the way oh way oh way gets stuck in your head and your singing along with it. It’s a fairly safe song and probably best given a) given the length of time and b) what the song was for. The song itself is likely to appeal to those already familiar with her work but will be interesting to see where she goes from here

Rating: 4/5

Emmelie de Forest // Only Teardrops

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Before anyone starts to worry, we’re not doing a double review. We are in fact reviewing the Danish Eurovision winner’s debut album, which just happens to have the same name as the winning entry.

Opening with the Only Teardrops Overture (yes, it’s orchestrated) but it’s quickly into the next track of Hunter & Prey which is just a nice true entry into the album before heading into the more uptempo area with Change (we wonder what a remix would sound like….)

Taking it down is the title track, Only Teardrops (see that review here) before heading into another little pop track of What Are You Waiting For. With military sounding drums and de Forest ensuring that each syllable is dictated , we have Haunted Heart.

Force of Nature has a bit of a My Immortal (Evanscence) feel to it before we’re raising the tempo once again for Beat The Speed of Sound, a song that probably wouldn’t sound out of place if sung by someone like Ellie Goulding. Soldier of Love is another track with a military beat to it but it does suit it given the title of the track.

Running in my Sleep feels a little out of place in the running order as it has more of a last track feeling whereas Let it Fall feels as if it should have been before and has a bit of an ethereal feeling to it. Closing the album is the symphonic version of Only Teardrops, a sample of which we heard at the start of this journey though this version has a delicate and fragile air about it.

The celtic feel that was heard from the title track all those months ago echoes through a number of the tracks on the album. Thankfully, she hasn’t tried to fit herself into too many styles here, and on the whole, the tracks so compliment each other. It will be interesting to see where he goes from here

Rating: 4/5

Emmelie de Forest // Only Teardrops

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So the Eurovision song test is over for another year (our review of the night will be up shortly!) but the winner this year was Emmelie de Forest representing Denmark with her song Only Teardrops.

In a way it reminds us of an earlier Danish win (yes we refer to the Oslen Brothers Fly on The Wings of Love) with an interesting celtic folksy feel to it. And it doesn’t sound as if there is too much complicated instrumentation behind it either, which is probably why it you will find yourself singing/clapping/dancing along with it at some point.

Considering it outside of the fact it was involved with Eurovision, it’s a good tune in itself and an interesting introduction to the young singer songwriter. It will be interesting to see what her debut album produces…

Rating: 4/5