Ok so she’s a resident of LaLa Land now but with a name like Linn Holmes (Holmstedt)she could only be Swedish by birth.
We don’t often drift into the world of mainstream pop if only because there are battalions of magazines covering those songs but her latest single ‘Cruisin’ with you’ caught my attention in a number of ways.
Linn knows how to grab it, too, with brief opening guitar chords that I mistook for Tom Petty’s ‘American Girl’ at first and she appreciates the Spotify six second rule as well; she’s quickly into the bread and butter of the song which meanders along the freeway with the same authority and class as that muscle car I reckon she’s probably draped over.
In fact I was unfair to describe it as mainstream pop. For starters it rocks out considerably more than that would suggest and her vocal contribution suggests she has both a rock and blues background. She was previously a session singer and is a member of several bands, and it shows.
Linn describes it as “a continuation of a portrait of love in a picture perfect vintage daydream, that kind of uncomplicated and dream-like romance you only see in movies.”
My own take on it is that it is slightly anachronistic (as her own ‘vintage’ comment perhaps suggests); that it is the sort of tune I might have expected to hear in 1990s/2000s California-based TV series like The OC and Beverley Hills 90210 as the young dudes head out onto Sunset Boulevard on a Saturday in Pop’s Cadillac, with a phalanx of giggling girls on the back seat.
Perhaps those TV execs might consider another such series with music provided by Linn?
And the guitar solo that forms the bridge is just so – adding to the value of the song rather than showboating, as it should be.
Another reason I took to her straight away – and this is a strange one for sure – is that she provided one of the most professional press releases I’ve ever seen; a single .pdf page perfectly set out with all the information I need and no more.
One day, when AI has vanquished all the human musos you’ll probably find it in a museum in a glass box on a plinth, like the Mona Lisa.
Find her on:
Website: https://www.linnholmstedt.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100068852104753
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/linnholmstedt/
