Anniemal

Anniemal
Anniemal
Studio album by Annie
Released	28 September 2004
Recorded	1999, 2001–2004
Genre	Electropop; europop;
Length	46:06
Label	679
Producer	Annie, Richard X, Röyksopp, Veikka Ercola, Timo Kaukolampi, Yngve Sætre
Annie chronology
Singles from Anniemal
	"The Greatest Hit"; Released: 1999; "Chewing Gum"; Released: August 2004; "Heartbeat"; Released: November 2004; "Happy Without You"; Released: July 2005; "Always Too Late"; Released: September 2005;

Anniemal is the debut album by Norwegian singer Annie. It was first released by 679 Recordings in September 2004. Annie began recording music in 1999 with her boyfriend, Tore Kroknes, who died in 2001. She returned to recording later that year, collaborating with Richard X, Röyksopp, and Timo Kaukolampi.

The album combines Annie's thin, airy vocals with heavily layered beats. It is heavily influenced by 1980s dance-pop. Upon release, the album was successful in Norway. Blogs leaked tracks from Anniemal before it was released internationally, and publications from other countries soon praised the album for its blissful but melancholic sound.

Before releasing the album internationally in 2005, Annie's record label 679 Recordings was not confident in the album's ability to achieve commercial success overseas, so it did not heavily promote Anniemal. The album eventually sold over 100,000 copies worldwide. It yielded four singles: "Chewing Gum", "Heartbeat", "Happy Without You", and "Always Too Late".

^ Pitchfork Staff (2 October 2009). "The 200 Best Albums of the 2000s". Pitchfork. Retrieved 27 April 2023. Few genres got a bigger boost from file-sharing in the early years of this decade than danceable European pop music...Annie, an enigmatic Norwegian bombshell with a sweet wispy voice and a taste for slick neo-'80s production, was the first of these acts to make it big...

[Pitchfork_Staff_2009-1] Pitchfork Staff (2 October 2009). "The 200 Best Albums of the 2000s". Pitchfork. Retrieved 27 April 2023. Few genres got a bigger boost from file-sharing in the early years of this decade than danceable European pop music...Annie, an enigmatic Norwegian bombshell with a sweet wispy voice and a taste for slick neo-'80s production, was the first of these acts to make it big...

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