Ida Maria - Fortress Around My Heart Album

Tracklist

1	See Me Through
2	I Like You So Much Better When You're Naked
3	Queen Of The World
4	Forgive Me
5	Oh My God
6	Morning Light
7	Stella
8	Keep Me Warm
9	Drive Away My Heart
10	Louie

Versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
602517693647	Ida Maria	Fortress Round My Heart ‎(CD, Album)	Nightliner, Universal Music	602517693647	Norway	2008
none	Ida Maria	Fortress 'Round My Heart ‎(CDr, Album, Promo)	Waterfall Records	none	UK	2008
B0012828-02	Ida Maria	Fortress Around My Heart ‎(CD, Album)	Mercury	B0012828-02	US	2009
B0012828-01	Ida Maria	Fortress 'Round My Heart ‎(LP, Album)	Mercury	B0012828-01	US	2009
UP11IMADV	Ida Maria	Fortress Around My Heart ‎(CD, Album, Promo)	RCA, Waterfall Records	UP11IMADV	US	2008

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Fortress Round My Heart is the debut album by Norwegian musician Ida Maria, released in the UK on July 28, 2008, and in the US on March 24, 2009. Six singles were released before the album's release: Oh My God, Drive Away My Heart, Stella, Queen of the World, I Like You So Much Better When You're Naked and the re-release of Oh My God. The original version was released through SonyBMG, as they had signed a partnership deal with Norway's Waterfall Records, who signed Ida and her independent. Listen free to Ida Maria Fortress Around My Heart Oh My God, Drive Away My Heart and more. 10 tracks 31:03. Ida Maria - Oh My God. Ida Maria - Drive Away My Heart. Ida Maria - Louie. Ida Maria - I Like You So Much Better When You're Naked. Ida Maria - Keep Me Warm. Ida Maria - Forgive Me. Ida Maria - Stella. Ida Maria. Fortress 'Round My Heart. If the rest of Fortress Round My Heart can't hope to match the searing intensity of its calling card, much of it is nearly as engaging, both musically and emotionally. Sivertsen turns out to be as generous with hooks as she is vocally captivating, and although her loud-mouthed, liquored-up confessionals can sometimes grow grating, they're more often than not genuinely affecting. Album 2009 10 Songs. Fortress 'round My Heart Ida Maria. Round My Heart. Released July 28, 2008. Fortress Round My Heart Tracklist. Oh My God Lyrics. About Fortress Round My Heart. The debut album by Norwegian indie rock musician Ida Maria. Fortress Round My Heart Q&A. Ida Maria grew up in Norway with little to do but wish she was Iggy Pop and act mildly antisocial. Oh My God is her explosive calling-card, and on Stella, yelling, Stella, oh Stella, I wanna give you the world if you'll just stay with me tonight, she's one part Brando's Stanley Kowalski to two parts drunkenly pleading girl. I Like You So Much Better When You're Naked, with its proto-punk riff, and Keep Me Warm repeat the formula to lesser effect. The result of that little informal challenge is Fortress Around My Heart, the Norwegian singers debut album that expertly blends her throaty punk vocals with an infectious pop sensibility. Read full review. Ida Maria Sivertsen has a powerful voice that conjures so many classic-rock associations it's a wonder she doesn't get lost amid all the references. On her debut album, Fortress Round My Heart, she howls like Janis Joplin, with a bit of soulful vibrato that almost sounds like grandstanding. She rasps like Courtney Love, similarly steeped in cigarettes and alcohol but without the manic aversion to actually making music. Ida Maria effervesces like Katrina Leskanich- of Katrina & the Waves fame- which brings to mind one-hit-wonder pronouncements but what a hit. Emotion is what defines this album. Sounding like a throaty alcoholic, 23-year-old Norwegian, Ida Maria Sivertsen, has managed to find in a niche in the market and a way through to UK success. She doesn't sound like anything else out there and, with song titles like the joyous I Love You So Much Better When You're Naked, is happily making her own path in the world. Clocking in at just over a slender 30 minutes in total, Fortress Around My Heart is a rollicking, high energy ride through the life of Ida. Oh My God opens the album with a subtle verse before raging into a foot-stomping p