Here Comes An Ocean Falling Down

Marit Bergman “Carry Me Home”

I’m not crazy about Kelly Clarkson’s most recent album, mainly because I keep wanting her to make another “Since U Been Gone,” and she only ever seems to come up with ballads that are nothing like it, or rockers that are more dense and heavy than dynamic and cathartic. I hold her up to an unfair level of expectation, and so I have to find my “Since U Been Gones” elsewhere. This song by Marit Bergman nearly does the trick. It’s not quite as rocking, but it has a similar sort of velocity and emphatic emotion. It’s not coming from a place of pain and bitterness, so the relative lightness works in its favor, and works as a come down from that kind of intensity. Bergman isn’t a vocal powerhouse like Clarkson, but she’s a fine singer and this is a terrific performance, and as much as I love the blockbuster-scale desperation in Clarkson’s voice, I appreciate the more sensible, scaled-down melodrama in Bergman’s delivery.

Buy it from Marit Bergman.