Ida Maria is 24-year-old Norwegian Ida Maria Børli Sivertsen,
and she really likes to drink. Like, a lot. On her terrific
debut, Fortress Round My Heart, Ida Maria falls down, gets up
and falls back down again. More often than not, the cycle has something
to do with the fact that she hits the bottle from dawn to dusk every
day. “Whiskey, please/I need some whiskey, please,” she sings on “Queen
of the World.” “I bump into things/I spin around in circles.” Many of
her drunken escapades culminate in her picking up some guy at a bar,
bringing him home and shrugging “I Like You So Much Better When You’re
Naked.” Ida Maria and her band tear through 10 songs in a little more
than 30 minutes, playing spitfire punk fueled by heart, youth and, of
course, lots of booze. — Gallucci
This article appears in Apr 15-21, 2009.
