Sivert Høyem | Dancing Headlights

«it’s just a pop album. Not much to talk about, really — a handful of tightly arranged pop songs, organically recorded with my band, and mixed in the grandest fashion possible by Bjarne Stensli,» says Sivert Høyem.

It’s weird to hear him talk about «pop». Pop music in 2024 means programmed beats, sampled sounds and autotune. Singer, songwriter and producer are very rarely the same person. Dancing Headlights is five guys live in studio, distorted guitars and hardly a digital tool in sight. Something further removed from the pop strategies of today is hard to imagine.

But pop holds a different meaning for Sivert, who thinks of The Beatles and the wonderful pop era of the 80's when he thinks of pop. It represents a sort of timeless qualityand universal appeal that Sivert has striven to achieve on "Dancing Headlights". Songwriting at its strongest and most immediate.