Since I got this album for christmas I’ve been listening to it days on end (alternating with Major Lazer and Florence and the Machine). She has the same accent as Björk and her style points in the same direction, although more main-stream, which explains why Peter Jackson chose Emilíana to sing Gollum’s Song when Björk didn’t have the time.
If you buy the album, don’t choose the Gold Edition over the normal one: the remixes aren’t that innovative, and the videos can be found on her YouTube-channel in better quality (or at least: scaled up)
Behold this screenshot of the unscaled videos from the bonus disc, in comparison to a 35mm postage stamp:
Here be some biting commentary about the state of the music industry and a prediction of how they will fail to cope with this century’s new challenges if they don’t leave the 90ies very soon. This was released in 2008 people, I expected iPod-video compatible clips, in PAL, at least.
This was the first Photo I took of my X61’s screen, it doesn’t look that badly lit to the eye…
Thanks to Jamendo I listen to a lot of free music — since it’s free, you won’t mind so much if you wasted some bandwidth on a bad album. The only physical CD of a free album I bought, was Ruth Theodore’s Worm Food
and it’s absolutely worth any amount of money you’d like to spend :)
I bought it not so much for the possibility of ripping it to FLAC, just wanted to demonstrate that you don’t have to be Radiohead
to sell free music.
Overall she sounds like a dirtier
Ani DiFranco. Especially 3 Floors
sounds like the quintessene of Ani. Rash
also contains many parts that are more rapped than sung, with a flow that would make many hip-hoppers jealous. Ugly Faces
could also be a orchestra-backed swing piece, nice. And CO2
finally ends the album with a nice chanson/cabaret-style.
Folk is not dead after all.
How could I miss her?! The official website doesn’t work for me, however Wikipedia calls the genre R&B, Futuristic Rock n’ Roll, Soul and Afro-Punk
. That’s a wide area.
Violet Stars Happy Hunting
is by far not her best song (but seemingly the only free one), but you’ll get the idea: hard fast beats, beautiful voice, lots of gimmics.
After having read a rather evil article about their newest album, which essentially praised it for being their first that’s not utterly boring, I listened to some excerpts on last.fm and immediately bought it, less than 30 minutes after reading about the band for the first time. (To my defence: I discovered two Portishead-remixes on my disk later that day, I simply forgot about them somehow as Rhythmbox forgets about my ratings after some of its frequent crashes)
To my astonishment, I received the CD (yes, these physical objects. Not trusting my non-existing backups I don’t purchase virtual goods) from Amazon on the very next day, proofing yet again that paying more for Prime
or 24h delivery
is a useless waste of money.
Read thorough reviews elsewhere, I’m not good at this, anyway, and as it’s their only album I know, there’s nothing to say for me about any development
etc.
- I like
- the
deep
sound, speaking of both ambience and audio spectrum; the singers voice seems quite airy
and feeble, which is a nice contrast to the more direct
music (exactly the reason why I love Metric
, I’ll write about that later, maybe)
- I think it’s odd
- though, that some of the tracks end in such an abrupt way that I suspected the ripped (FLAC, of course) files to be faulty. They weren’t. Also some tracks begin or end with way too long passages of pure sine waves at unbearable frequencies, bad for the beheadphoned ears.
- Conclusion:
- Very nice; worth the money (although the CD has no added value at all except for being a backup medium for the rips, the booklet’s empty except for a photo of a radio station and credits); best suited for night-time background listening while working (as it’s a bit too minimal if you do nothing but listen…)
I used to think letting the browser rescale embedded images should be a punishable offence, but it turns out there is just no other way if I want the content to have a width relative to the text. Thus a 1024px wide image, scaled to (on my screen) 650px (see I planned for higher resolution!). Hit me :D
