Taste Test: Sandra Kolstad casts a somber glance back to just ‘A Minute Ago’

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If you’ve ever felt the metallic edge of a knife, a mechanism resembling a relationship’s swift collapse, you’ll know that the newly-severed connection is the least of your problems. The world as you once knew it, silvering with hope and enveloping warmth, is now forever cast in cold, bone-shivering darkness. After three full-length records, electro-pop shape-shifter Sandra Kolstad experiments with her anguish in vibrant colors on her new catalog-changing entry. “A Minute Ago,” a beautifully tragic and glowing pop portrait, arrests the senses as glowing orbs prancing between her fingertips. “If I fight, then will I win?” she asks, her voice swimming in stunning moon-like pools of light. She quickly cuts the rope from past memories, but such actions will, most likely, haunt her for the rest of her life. Kolstad’s voice flows in earnest, pointedly tearing back each tattered layer, for a stunning transformation.

“A Minute Ago” anchors her forthcoming new album, Burning Love, out this May.

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