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Artist
Elbow
Title
Asleep In The Back
Label: V2
Genre: Rock Alternative
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| Includes the singles "Newborn" and "Red" plus the bonus track "Asleep In The Back". NME says... "These are anthems in waiting, willing soundtracks to heartbreak everywhere... they're gonna be huge, any day now". |
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Chicane
Title
Behind the Sun
Label: Sony
Genre: Electronica
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| For some, outfits like producer Nick Bracegirdle's Chicane are not easy to swallow. Isolating the more jubilant properties of trance, the beat is a light bounce, levitating above club-dance brainlessness, sounding like a house music hybrid meant for sparkling sunshine instead of dark and sweaty warehouses. They exist in an idealized, pseudo-enlightened fairy tale filled with bright colors and youthful beauty. But that's not the problem. What rankles purists and picky fans is the audacity with which these "techno" artists go after the unconverted common folk, dragging electronic music out of its druggy, "in-crowd" pretensions. Bracegirdle and contemporaries like Olive, Sneaker Pimps, and BT (the last, most noticeably on his Movement in Still Life) are waging a turf war on the boundaries between techno and pop music, each using different tactics and borrowing from different sources. Chicane throws out an especially cutting salvo in the battle here, and it's a doozy. None other than Bryan Adams lends his raspy tenor to the subtle grooves and euphoric dreaminess of "Don't Give Up." It's one thing for Liam Gallagher to lend his pipes to a Chemical Brothers track, or for BT to tap Tori Amos for the ubiquitous club hit "Blue Skies," but Bryan Adams? Is this heresy? Or an ingenious use of vocal color that yields an incredibly hummable dance anthem? Maybe it's best not to analyze What It All Means. Just sit back and enjoy the summery grooves, trusting these ongoing musical inspirations to become whatever they need to be |
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Fila Brazillia
Title
Brazilification
Label: Kudos Records
Genre: Electronica
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| Brazilification is somewhat of a mixed bag. Fila is a bit of a critics' favorite, and certainly some tracks show why. The sound ranges from exellent chill-out techno of Electric Orange-meets-Orb on the better songs to unengaging repetitiveness on others, dragged down by a dry mix. On the good tracks, the trippy ambient feel is not lost to a boring drum loop |
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South
Title
From Here On In
Label: Kinetic Records
Genre: Dance
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| London-based trio South are envoys of that "new" ethic of guitar-stroking, comedown-friendly rock & roll ambience also practiced by the likes of Turin Brakes and Kings Of Convenience. For the most part, From Here On In makes like a celestial meeting of Nick Drake and the Stone Roses, with South's delicate finger-picked melodies launching out into the outer realms of the sprawling space-rock jam. However, as the first indie-rock band signed to James Lavelle's notoriously hip beats label Mo' Wax, South are a guitar band who do occasionally take in dramatic rolls of DJ Shadow-esque drums, fuzzy Money Mark-style keyboard washes, and moody orchestral strings torn straight from UNKLE's hymn sheet. "Everyone / Will come down in time" promises the harmonized chorus of "I Know What You're Like." Not yet, though; this fine album guarantees a 70-minute trip, so strap yourself in and experience the latest rebuff to the tired chants of "Rock is dead." |
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Sugarland
Title
Live on the Inside
Label: Mecury
Genre: Rock
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| Powerhouse duo Sugarland will debut their fourth record titled Live On The Inside, Tuesday, August 4. The CD/DVD set contains live tracks and performance footage from their Love On The Inside Tour.
Filmed in high-definition in Lexington, Kentucky by director Shaun Silva with 20 cameras, the duo's artistic and innovative live show comes to life on the DVD with 16 songs and over an hour of live performance footage. Fans will find all five of their No.1 hits ("Want To", "Settlin'", "Stay", "All I Want To Do" and "It Happens"), as well as many other chart toppers.
The 10-track CD includes some of the most popular songs in music as performed "live" by Sugarland. Hits made famous by Beyonce, B-52's, Pearl Jam, Edie Brickell, Kings of Leon and R.E.M. The CD also includes live recordings of three of Sugarland's biggest hits, including their Grammy-winning song, "Stay".
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Artist
Heather Nova
Title
Oyster
Label: Sbme Special Mkts.
Genre: Rock
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| The hooky, upbeat "Walk This World" sounds like a major hit, but it's merely the most accessible side of a feverish, poetic artist who'll be compared more to Sarah McLachlan and Sinead O'Connor than to Sheryl Crowe. Lush melodies abound, but some tracks ("Island," "Sugar") have an intensity worthy of Patti Smith, and there's emotional blood on tracks like "Blue Black." Other highlights on this edgy, affecting debut are "Maybe an Angel" and "Throwing Fire at the Sun." |
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Artist
Heather Nova
Title
Red Bird
Label: Big Cat
Genre: Rock
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| Heather Nova emanated a sexy, dark vibe in her first albums, "Oyster" and "Siren," with angry-sexy lyrics and sensuous guitar-driven pop music. It was unique, driven and strong musically.
After that, surprisingly, her music seemed to lose some of its edge -- it was still good, just not as intense. Now, in her first album after her daughter's birth, Nova returns some of that intensity to her music, albeit in a slightly more mellow, meditative manner. |
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