Manna – Gimme Water

This autumn singer Manna is living her breakthrough after releasing her second album ‘Songs of Hope and Desire’, which was received with good reviews and followed by cover stories in magazines and a raising interest in the UK. Born in Paris to a Finnish mother and an Algerian father, the singer spent her childhood between France, Finland and Algeria, and now based in Helsinki, she represents an appealing cross-cultural oddity, much needed in the unmixed Finnish landscape. On this new album, Manna puts aside the dreamy pop of her debut, done in collaboration with some of The Soundtrack Of Our Lives guys, and she embraces an uplifting guitar pop with influences of Blondie and The Strokes.

Including the brilliant single Some Girls / Some Boys (once you hear it, you will have to hear it again and again), ‘Songs of Hope and Desire’ is a really strong album with no filler and we had some difficulties choosing a song to post, but in the end we picked up Gimme Water that effectively represents the catchy melodies and the dirty guitar work that are all over the album.

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