Leona Naess

On her follow-up to 2000's Comatised, this Norwegian-born, London-raised, New York
University-educated singer-songwriter moves into the pop fast lane that belonged to
Deborah Harry in the Eighties. Working with superefficient Swedish producer Martin
Terefe - who re-voices with vintage synths the punch of a guitar band like, say, the
Pretenders - Naess emerges as a breathy singer who vows (in the skittish "Mayor... More >