Alonette

Variations of sepia tones shimmer when Anett Tamm strums the first strings of her debut album ‘Compass’ (2025). It's summer, sometime in the past. The singer-songwriter is leaning against a birch tree in the shade, the scent of cut grass in the air. As Alonette, she negotiates the existentialism of wasted days like an idyllic role-playing game in a child's head. Folk-pop goes hand in hand with vocal harmonies in homage to the sound of the seventies and yet the surprising twists and turns of her songs sound unagitatedly experimental, adventurous, even downright modern. Perhaps this is also due to the select cast of guests from the Estonian music scene that Alonette is supported by - from Erki Pärnoja to Johanna Vahermägi. In other places, pieces such as ‘Trouble’ or ‘Ceramic Tiles’ breathe an autumnal coolness that conjures up images of Nordic coniferous forests and unobtrusively conveys the feeling of arrival, home and security. ‘Compass’ is therefore not only an incredibly successful first studio work, but also the beginning of one of the most interesting artistic careers in contemporary Estonia.