After releasing eight albums in eight years, Hanne Kolstø took a breather. If you can call starting a new band and writing her first novel “a breather”. All the same, she’s now back with her ninth studio album. A house in the forest along the Oslofjord is the artist’s new base, and here, Kolstø’s creativity clearly thrives. The four-time Spellemann award nominee returns with a cornucopia of an album. E det berre mej includes catchy and genre-bending songs, complete with the idiosyncratic and smart lyrics Kolstø has built her career on. On songs such as “Ei gate i Monopol”, “Enda” and the single “Samme ka ej sej”, she flexes her lyrical muscles. While on the opening track “Kom igjen”, she proclaims (or is it an apology?): “I won’t do what they tell me to do // I burn bridges // it just happens”. Kolstø has produced E det berre mej herself, but producing isn’t the only thing she does. Listen to this: Kolstø recently released the debut album from Midnight Machine, the duo she created with Pow Pow member Sigurd Thomassen. She’s written the novel Psykopatmusikk (Psycopath Music) scheduled for release in the spring of 2024. She painted the cover for E det berre mej herself, and had her first multimedia art exhibition in August, 2023..