UPC: 4015698169478 "FURIE" is music. Joy. Present and avant-garde. In April 2025, with her second studio album "FURIE," Alicia Edelweiss fulfills the promise of her debut album, released six years earlier: to add something truly new and genuinely interesting to the pop landscape. "FURIE" contains 8 songs of a length that is rare these days. They have enough space and time to unfold their own little panoramas - the artist herself compares them to short films, whose plot twists and turns one has to pay attention to. It wasn't her decision to make the songs so long, she says, but rather not to shorten them. The artist uses the word "integrity" to describe their length and consistency. What a wonderful standard she sets for her own music. Therefore, "FURIE" is also an album in the almost old-fashioned, in the narrowest sense: What is very rare these days and what makes it a true exception, is that we are actually faced with songs that are of equal standing and of equal quality. These pieces are - and one must not misunderstand the word pop - never predictable, never merely written - they are fictional, conceived, and composed. At times, they are fought for. Of course, you wouldn't notice. The musician has done the heavy lifting - we experience a state of suspension. This is primarily created through tone, sound, and melody, which function as multi-layered, complex mood carriers. Instrumentally, "FURIE" is unusually rich - with guitar, drums, piano, accordion, especially strings, animal sounds, noises, synthesizers, bells, trumpets... for...