This Norwegian pop trio's name, which the dictionary defines as "a short-lived thing," grows more ironic with each passing day. By the time things really started to take off for Ephemera, the childhood friends had already been playing together for almost ten years. They came together as a group in 1994 in the city of Bergen, and quickly drew attention with their charmingly girlish easy-on-the-ear acoustic pop. They signed a multiple-album deal with record industry giants BMG while still in their late teens, and released their debut album, Glue, as early as 1996. But the relati...