Oyvind Holm - The Unreliable Narrator

Cat. no: HOLM3CGR115
Format: LPCD
Barcode: 9008798306077
|Release Date: 08 Apr 2022
Genre: Indie

In literature an unreliable narrator is a narrator that can't be fully trusted, a character whose credibility for some reason or another has been compromised

When I chose to use the expression as the title for my new album, I did so because I felt it resonated with me on a number of different levels.First of all, it serves as an accurate way of describing my own lyrical universe, which has always been a mash-up of real-life events and fction. No one can tell for sure what is real and what is made up. At times, even I fnd there can be a fuid transition between the two poetic worlds. When I look back on my work, it is often hard to tell where reality and fction overlap.

Another factor that undoubtably and unavoidably bled into my writing this time, was that I fnished most of the new lyrics in the weeks and days leading up to the 2020 US Presidential election.
More than any time before, we witnessed a toxic political campaign that consciously sought to mislead people. And any attempt at raising critical questions and points of view were brutally brushed off and dismissed as fake news. Several political narratives played out at the same time, all claiming they exclusively owned THE TRUTH. A game of smoke and mirrors that for a lot of people made it hard to decide who to believe. Who was the truthful and who was the unreliable narrator of the political game?

Tracks: Ghost Dance / The Stranger / You Plot The Crime / ILove / Water / Traveling Through Time / Driftwood / Ship / Indigo / Upheaval / Cinema / Early November / Roll The Dice / Stray Dogs Playing / Like Elephants