Modern Stories from Ă–stersund: Annika Norlin
Lindsay Hutton, Rock's Backpages, December 2008
YOU MAY NOT be familiar with Annika Norlin's name yet but I hope that one of these days you will be. The organic rise of this talented Scandinavian songstress is progressing nicely. Her two-pronged attack on the music world comes in two forms, one as Hello Saferide and the other as Säkert! (Swedish for sure or certain) which records in her native lingo.
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