Simple Life

Magnet | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 18, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Filter U.S.
• ASIN: B000UZ4FD8
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #265,341 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

2007 release, the third solo album from the Norwegian Pop pixie. Magnet, (AKA Even Johansen) is a reclusive character. He lives his simple life on a little farm on an island outside Bergen. There he has his studio and there he makes his records, doing almost everything himself. Operating in the twilight of Folk, Pop and Electronic escapism his music has been hailed especially for its dreamy and slow transcendent qualities. His songs are like a velvety maze of sounds and phrases and melodies with his close-absent, gentle voice as a guide. The Simple Life has reaped warm reviews commending Even Johansen's quite unique sense of writing Pop songs that oscillate between melancholy and wit,. Sony. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5 stars A helpful review, March 26, 2008

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F. Marthiniussen "Fredrik Marthiniussen" (Tønsberg, Norway) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Simple Life (Audio CD)

If you don't have Magnet's first two albums "The Tourniquet" and "On Your Side" I suggest you buy these first. Don't get me wrong, this is a great album, a must have for Magnet fans - but I feel the first two albums are more representative of Magnet's music.

3.0 out of 5 stars Not as good as the last release (On Your Side), December 31, 2007

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Douglas M. Stevens "Doug Stevens" (Oxford, Ohio) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Simple Life (Audio CD)

His voice is still as good but the album is nowhere near as engaging as his earlier release "On Your Side." I would not purchase this one again if I had the choice. I'm going to have to look and see what the difference were in terms of the production crew because I can't find any other way to account for the lackluster feel of this CD.

4.0 out of 5 stars Bliss, December 7, 2007

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S. ODonnell "LISTEN UP!!!" (West Chester, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Simple Life (Audio CD)

If by "simple" used in the album's title means less here, than once again, less is more with Evan's Magnet. This guy, one of Norway's music gems, is quite simply a musical genius. Evan's voice is angelic, quite polished, and deeply soothing. What you'll find here in Simple Life, just like Magnet's other albums, is his brilliant mixing of indie folk, beats, rasta jams, horns and strings. It works, and it will hook you. Magnet does this mix, like no other, again here perfectly in Simple Life-just like we've come to love and expect from him time and again. Get this album pronto, like any of his others, you won't be disappointed.