It's true! The single "Heim te mor" is taken from his forthcoming album (the title hasn't been announced yet but the release date is October 18) and has much of the same ingredients as his smash hit "Kveldssong for deg og meg" from 2004: A feel-good beat, a catchy chorus that gets stuck in your head after two listenings, a bit odd (pun intended!) combination of instruments - accordeon, banjo, harmonica and guitar - and a guaranteed singalong potential.
Another thing the song (in my opinion) has in common with his last hit is also, however, the immediate feeling of "what the heck was that!?" after the first listening. When your ears are "trained" to listen to more melancholy or classically oriented music it takes a few minutes to adjust to hearing this kind of songs - After five hearings though I have to say that personally I have a little problem with the presence of the tuba in this latest recording; to me it gives a little too much German polka feeling to the song. That's why I love it so much when Odd breaks into sudden cries of "yee-haw!" - that brings it back to Texas again...
I won't have to tell you that Odd Nordstoga's musical sound is unique. You'd think that would make his music difficult for everyone to grasp, but it seems that almost all people, regardless of age and sex, embrace his happy little tunes and down to earth lyrics. He has sort of become a Norwegian national hero. If you think the description of his genre was a little vague, why don't you go and listen to the song yourself:
http://www.universalmusic.no/les_mer.asp?newsid=3604
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