Marcel Winatschek

Cooler Than It Lets On

"I Don’t Mean A Thing" is the kind of title that functions as both disclaimer and hook. Anna Ryon’s track moves in that particular register of Nordic pop that was everywhere in 2011—clean production, the melody carrying more weight than the arrangement lets on, a breezy surface with something cooler and heavier underneath. It’s the sort of song that doesn’t announce itself and then won’t leave.