The Tourniquet is Magnet

Magnet (musician)

Magnet is the pseudonym of Norwegian singer-songwriter Even Johansen . To date, he has released four full-length studio albums as well as several singles and EPs. Johansen draws upon many influences, including folk, pop, and electronica...

's third album

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...

, first released 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...

on May 30, 2005 where it debuted on the album chart at #2. The album is named after the drink "The Tourniquet," which Even sampled "in a Singapore airport bar, en route back from Los Angeles after recording there." There were two singles released from the album: "Hold On" in August 2005, and "Fall at Your Feet" in December 2005. The song "Believe" was scheduled to be the third single but was canceled. The American edition of the album includes the song "This Bird Can Never Fly" as a bonus track. The song originally appeared as the B-side to "Fall at Your Feet."

Track listing

1. "Hold On" – 5:00
2. "Duracellia" – 4:01
3. "The Pacemaker" – 5:06
4. "Believe" – 3:37
5. "All You Ask" – 4:07
6. "Deadlock" – 4:04
7. "Fall at Your Feet" – 3:27
8. "Blow by Blow" – 3:59
9. "Miss Her So" – 3:41
10. "Jaws" – 3:34

US-only bonus track

11. "This Bird Can Never Fly" – 3:16

Norwegian reviews

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• BT.no link
• Dagbladet.no link
• Dagsavisen link
• Panorama link
• Varden link
• VG Nett link