Quiet Exit
Encyclopedia
Quiet Exit is the 2006 debut album
of Norwegian
singer-songwriter
Elvira Nikolaisen
. The album contains twelve songs written by Nikolaisen. The album sold over fifty thousand copies in 2006, making it the 14th most sold album in Norway
that year.
, lead guitarist of Turbonegro
, and lead singer/guitarist of Euroboys
, enlisting fellow Euroboys guitarist Trond Mjøen to accompany on electric/acoustic guitars, while Tom Rudi Torjussen of Jim Stärk
plays drums/percussion. Ole Kristian Wetten plays bass. Nikolaisen's older brother, Emil Nikolaisen
, of Serena Maneesh
also contributed, by providing background vocals on three of the songs. All the lyrics and melodies were written by Nikolaisen.Recording took place in Athletic Sound Studio in Halden
and finished in September 2005.
Several reviewers commented positively on the album's production. One reviewer complimented Schreiner
and the backing band
for the "many exciting details in the soundscape, that reveals something new every time you listen to the songs". Thorstein Krogedahl also received praise for his performance on background saxophone in the chorus of Egypt Song.
, "Love I Can't Defend", released in late 2005, was a success, peaking at #3 on the Norwegian airplay
chart, making Quiet Exit one of the most anticipated albums of 2006. At the release concert, Nikolaisen said: "Quiet Exit is a result of many years of passionate work." The album was released on 6 March 2006, the same day as another much anticipated debut album, Marit Larsen
's Under the Surface
. An article in Verdens Gang
written by Thomas Talseth described the simultaneous release as the peak of a "girl war", referring to the large number of Norwegian
female artists making their record debuts in early 2006. The article sparked some controversy. Several music journalists and artists criticized Talseth for his use of the term "girl war". However, Talseth later defended his use of the term, calling it a "nice tabloid angle".
The album was well received by critics. In his review for Verdens Gang
, Talseth gave it 5 out of 6. Dagbladet
s reviewer also gave it 5/6, calling the album "comfortable and beautiful music that deserves many listeners", characterizing Nikolaisen as a "female crooner
". Another reviewer praised Nikolaisen for her "soulful voice". The album went straight to the #2 spot on the Norwegian
album chart, only beaten by David Gilmour
's On an Island
, and remained on the list for 34 consecutive weeks.
The album's second single, "Egypt Song", was also successful, capturing the top spot on the Norwegian airplay
chart. Per 29 June 2007, it was the second most played song on NRK P1
, Norway
's largest radio station. The song spent 18 consecutive weeks on the Norwegian singles chart
, peaking at #6.
Nikolaisen received three Spelemann
-nominations for the album: "Best Female Artist", "Newcomer of the Year", and "Hit of the Year" (for "Love I Can't Defend").
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
of Norwegian
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...
Elvira Nikolaisen
Elvira Nikolaisen
Elvira Nikolaisen is a Norwegian singer-songwriter signed for Sony BMG. She released her debut single Love I Can't Defend in December 2005, it reached the number 3 spot on the Norwegian singles list. She followed up the hit with her first album, Quiet Exit, and a second single, Egypt Song, in...
. The album contains twelve songs written by Nikolaisen. The album sold over fifty thousand copies in 2006, making it the 14th most sold album in Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
that year.
Production
The album was produced by Knut Schreiner, better known as EuroboyEuroboy
Knut Schreiner , better known by his stage name Euroboy, plays lead guitar in Turbonegro . Noted internationally for the album Apocalypse Dudes. As Euroboy, Schreiner usually appears on stage in an all black attire, sporting a Schutz-Staffel Totenkopf officer's hat...
, lead guitarist of Turbonegro
Turbonegro
Turbonegro is a Norwegian punk rock band that was initially active from 1989 to 1998, and later reformed in 2002. Their style combines glam rock, punk rock and hard rock into a style the band describes as "deathpunk"....
, and lead singer/guitarist of Euroboys
Euroboys
Euroboys is a Norwegian band. They were formed in 1990 under the name Kåre And The Cavemen, but changed their name to Euroboys in 1997 for releases outside of Norway...
, enlisting fellow Euroboys guitarist Trond Mjøen to accompany on electric/acoustic guitars, while Tom Rudi Torjussen of Jim Stärk
Jim Stärk
Jim Stärk is a Norwegian pop band formed in 2000. While it is known for melodic, at times melancholy, guitar based songs influenced by folk musicians like Townes Van Zandt and Bob Dylan, Jim Stärk has a distinct musical profile...
plays drums/percussion. Ole Kristian Wetten plays bass. Nikolaisen's older brother, Emil Nikolaisen
Emil Nikolaisen
Emil Nikolaisen is a musician and producer from Norway. He is frontman, bandleader, songwriter, guitarist & singer of the well-known Norwegian alternative rock band Serena-Maneesh....
, of Serena Maneesh
Serena Maneesh
Serena-Maneesh is an alternative rock band from Oslo, Norway.- Significance of the Name:...
also contributed, by providing background vocals on three of the songs. All the lyrics and melodies were written by Nikolaisen.Recording took place in Athletic Sound Studio in Halden
Halden
is a both a town and a municipality in Østfold county, Norway. The seat of the municipality, Halden is a border town located at the Tista river delta on the Iddefjord, the southernmost border crossing between Norway and Sweden.-History:...
and finished in September 2005.
Several reviewers commented positively on the album's production. One reviewer complimented Schreiner
Euroboy
Knut Schreiner , better known by his stage name Euroboy, plays lead guitar in Turbonegro . Noted internationally for the album Apocalypse Dudes. As Euroboy, Schreiner usually appears on stage in an all black attire, sporting a Schutz-Staffel Totenkopf officer's hat...
and the backing band
Backup band
A backing band or backup band is a musical ensemble that accompanies an artist at a live performance or on a recording. This can either be an established, long-standing group that has little or no change in membership, or it may be an ad hoc group assembled for a single show or a single recording...
for the "many exciting details in the soundscape, that reveals something new every time you listen to the songs". Thorstein Krogedahl also received praise for his performance on background saxophone in the chorus of Egypt Song.
Release and reception
The album's lead singleLead single
A lead single is usually the first single released by a musician or a band before the release of its home album.During the era of the grammophone record, all music arrived in the marketplace as what is now termed a single, one potential hit song backed by an additional song of generally less...
, "Love I Can't Defend", released in late 2005, was a success, peaking at #3 on the Norwegian airplay
Airplay
* Airplay is the amount of time a song is played on the radio.It may also refer to:* AirPlay, an audio & video streaming technology from Apple Inc.* Airplay , Foster & Graydon music project from 1980* Citroën C1, Citroën C1 Airplay...
chart, making Quiet Exit one of the most anticipated albums of 2006. At the release concert, Nikolaisen said: "Quiet Exit is a result of many years of passionate work." The album was released on 6 March 2006, the same day as another much anticipated debut album, Marit Larsen
Marit Larsen
Marit Elisabeth Larsen is a Norwegian singer and songwriter.She began playing violins at age of 5,and played it until the age of 8. She gained international fame during her teenage years as a member of the pop duo M2M with childhood friend Marion Raven. More recently she has pursued her own music...
's Under the Surface
Under the Surface
Under the Surface is the debut album from Norwegian singer-songwriter Marit Larsen which was released on March 6, 2006. All but three of the songs on the album were written solely by Marit herself. The album went gold in Norway after selling more than 20,000 copies in less than 3 weeks. The album...
. An article in Verdens Gang
Verdens Gang
Verdens Gang , generally known under the abbreviation VG, is a Norwegian tabloid newspaper...
written by Thomas Talseth described the simultaneous release as the peak of a "girl war", referring to the large number of Norwegian
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
female artists making their record debuts in early 2006. The article sparked some controversy. Several music journalists and artists criticized Talseth for his use of the term "girl war". However, Talseth later defended his use of the term, calling it a "nice tabloid angle".
The album was well received by critics. In his review for Verdens Gang
Verdens Gang
Verdens Gang , generally known under the abbreviation VG, is a Norwegian tabloid newspaper...
, Talseth gave it 5 out of 6. Dagbladet
Dagbladet
Dagbladet is Norway's second largest tabloid newspaper, and the third largest newspaper overall with a circulation of 105,255 copies in 2009, 18,128 papers less than in 2008. The editor in chief is Lars Helle....
s reviewer also gave it 5/6, calling the album "comfortable and beautiful music that deserves many listeners", characterizing Nikolaisen as a "female crooner
Crooner
Crooner is an American epithet given to male singers of pop standards, mostly from the Great American Songbook, either backed by a full orchestra, a big band or by a piano. Originally it was an ironic term denoting an emphatically sentimental, often emotional singing style made possible by the use...
". Another reviewer praised Nikolaisen for her "soulful voice". The album went straight to the #2 spot on the Norwegian
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
album chart, only beaten by David Gilmour
David Gilmour
David Jon Gilmour, CBE, D.M. is an English rock musician and multi-instrumentalist who is best known as the guitarist, one of the lead singers and main songwriters in the progressive rock band Pink Floyd. In addition to his work with Pink Floyd, Gilmour has worked as a producer for a variety of...
's On an Island
On an Island
On an Island is the third solo album by David Gilmour, best known as vocalist and lead guitarist for Pink Floyd. It was released in the UK on 6 March 2006, Gilmour's 60th birthday, and in the United States the following day. It was Gilmour's first new solo album in 22 years...
, and remained on the list for 34 consecutive weeks.
The album's second single, "Egypt Song", was also successful, capturing the top spot on the Norwegian airplay
Airplay
* Airplay is the amount of time a song is played on the radio.It may also refer to:* AirPlay, an audio & video streaming technology from Apple Inc.* Airplay , Foster & Graydon music project from 1980* Citroën C1, Citroën C1 Airplay...
chart. Per 29 June 2007, it was the second most played song on NRK P1
NRK P1
NRK P1 is one of three nation-wide analogue radio channels operated by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation . It is the direct descendant of NRK's first radio station which began broadcasting in 1933...
, Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
's largest radio station. The song spent 18 consecutive weeks on the Norwegian singles chart
VG-lista
VG-listen is a Norwegian record chart. It is weekly presented in the newspaper VG and the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation program Topp 20. It is considered the primary Norwegian record chart, charting albums and singles from countries and continent around the world. The data is collected by...
, peaking at #6.
Nikolaisen received three Spelemann
Spellemannprisen
Spellemannprisen is an award presented to Norwegian musicians for their contributions.-Operation:The award was established on the initiative of International Federation of the Phonographic Industry , an organization that represents the interests of the recording industry worldwide...
-nominations for the album: "Best Female Artist", "Newcomer of the Year", and "Hit of the Year" (for "Love I Can't Defend").
Track listing
| # | Title | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Love I Can't Defend" | 3:30 |
| 2 | "Quiet Exit" | 3:08 |
| 3 | "Habit" | 4:02 |
| 4 | "Egypt Song" | 3:17 |
| 5 | "Not My Place" | 4:29 |
| 6 | "Sweet, Sweet" | 5:29 |
| 7 | "Carpenter" | 3:02 |
| 8 | "My Way Back In" | 3:38 |
| 9 | "Scarecrow" | 4:14 |
| 10 | "Troops" | 4:46 |
| 11 | "Disheartening" | 5:04 |
| 12 | "Everything Reminds Me Of You" | 3:54 |