Love In Motion - Anika Moa

I was surprised when I found myself enjoying the new song from Anika Moa. Really enjoying it in fact. It saw it on the music television (yes... those last three words should be read in the voice of an octogenarian) and I thought it was alright. I heard it on the radio (just use your normal voice for the rest of this) and it grew on me slightly. It wasn't until I heard myself singing it that I realised how much I actually liked it. Even more surprising was the realisation that it wasn't my angelic song-bird-esque voice that made me like it, it was, and still is, a bloody good song.

The 'it' I refer to is the first single off Moa's new album Love in Motion. To drop the pronoun... 'it' is Running Through the Fire (Storm). It's up-beat, it's catchy and it's a sing-a-long-able gem.

I've never been a big fan of Anika Moa's stuff, having simply never been wowed by her other songs and also never been a subscriber to that whole "buy NZ music because it's NZ music" school of thought.

I'm sorry to say that my opinion hasn't been greatly changed by this album. It's ok... but not something that will stay in my rotation for too long.

Clearly the outstanding track is the single, but there are a few other decent tracks too such as Blame it on the Rain and Burn This Love.

I think that if you like her other stuff, you'll like this album. If you're not a fan, then don't expect the world. It's a perfectly listen-able album, but not in a league with similar kiwi artists or albums - Bic Runga's Drive for example, though Moa is certainly a bit rock-ier than Runga.

This article has show-cased well my love of, and indeed skill in, inventing new words by simply using one or many hyphens. See if you can find them all!

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3 notable tracks

For some reason the embedding has been disabled by the record company, but here's a look/listen at Running Through the Fire.