Editorial Product Review:Amazon.co.uk:Portishead's Third has been a long time coming, the result of a lengthy creative torpor following 1997's dark, distinctly underrated album Portishead. Importantly, though, they've shaken it. While the core trio of Beth Gibbons, Geoff Barrow, and Adrian Utley remains, this is quite a different band to Portishead's 90s incarnation: gone is the slo-mo turntable scratching and smoky jazz feel, replaced by heavy, brooding rhythms, vintage-sounding electronics, and spindly guitar. Still present, though, is that sense of emotional ...
Editorial Product Review: :The collaboration of studio whiz Geoff Barrow and singer Beth Gibbons, Dummy was made at the same time as a short film noir called 'To Kill a Dead Man,' and the same approach--gloomy, tormented, and wildly melodramatic--permeates the album. 'Sour Times' (the hit in which Gibbons cries, again and again, 'Nobody loves me, it's true') and the more cryptic 'Glory Box' are the linchpins of the album, defining its sound: dark flashes of old soul and film music, ...
Editorial Product Review: essential recording:The third full-length release from Massive Attack is a taste of the future of pop music--a future where precisely engineered events can be seamlessly partnered with the subtle complexities of a human voice. Since their first album, Blue Lines, they've been making similar magic happen with any one of several guest vocalists, but nothing like the way it happens on Mezzanine. This time they take the union further, moving it into a darker space in which ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:2000 release for the extremely talented and unsung DJ duo. An amalgamation of reggae dubplates, lounge muzak, breaks, beats and bossanova. 2000 release. Standard jewel case with slipcase. :Washington, D.C.'s Thievery Corporation purvey a very mellow, deliberately international mixture of sounds that might be called 'lounge music'--not in the kitschy sense, but in the sense of a laid-back local bar (much like the one the duo happens to run) with no dance floor. Rob Garza and Eric ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:2001 debut full length for dance act described as, 'the British Air', the follow-up to two limited, critically acclaimed EPs. Highlights include the awesome African influenced instrumental passage 'Likufanele', the velvety 'I Have Seen' feat. Mozez & the quiet storm of 'Destiny' feat. Sia. Quango. :Zero 7's ability to conjure beautiful lullabies with all the romance of 1960s French pop (as found on their debut LP, Simple Things) would have made them the toast of soundtrack composers ...
Editorial Product Review: :The super group Deltron 3030 is composed of producer Dan the Automator, rapper Del tha Funkee Homosapien and DJ Kid Koala and sometimes features guest artists who also take on varying futuristic pseudonyms. Originally released in 2000 on the now-defunct 75ARK record label, this Hip Hop concept album was released the same year as the Gorillaz first 12' and is on a similar plane. Following the release of Deltron 3030, all three members participated in the Gorillaz' ...
Editorial Product Review: :The bad news is that there is no 'Sour Times' to equal the first album's greatness. Lead single 'Cowboys' doesn't do the trick, not with its '50s sci-fi dub vibe and the Yma Sumac stylings of Beth Gibbons. The upside is that this bold sophomore release is, even at this late date in trip-hop's evolution, still startling, thanks to the mix of Geoff Barrow's soundscapes and Gibbons's haunting wail. --Jeff Bateman
Editorial Product Review: :The bad news is that there is no 'Sour Times' to equal the first album's greatness. Lead single 'Cowboys' doesn't do the trick, not with its '50s sci-fi dub vibe and the Yma Sumac stylings of Beth Gibbons. The upside is that this bold sophomore release is, even at this late date in trip-hop's evolution, still startling, thanks to the mix of Geoff Barrow's soundscapes and Gibbons's haunting wail. --Jeff Bateman
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:Italian superstar Elisa releases her debut U.S. album, Dancing, on Sugar Records in July 2008. Elisa's song 'Dancing' was featured on Fox’s hit show 'So You Think You Can Dance' in June 2007 and as a result of the performance, the song shot into the iTunes Top 20. Elisa is a multi-platinum superstar in her home country of Italy with an impressive string of No. 1 hits and high-profile artistic collaborations, such as dueting with Luciano Pavarotti ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:Italian superstar Elisa releases her debut U.S. album, Dancing, on Sugar Records in July 2008. Elisa's song 'Dancing' was featured on Fox’s hit show 'So You Think You Can Dance' in June 2007 and as a result of the performance, the song shot into the iTunes Top 20. Elisa is a multi-platinum superstar in her home country of Italy with an impressive string of No. 1 hits and high-profile artistic collaborations, such as dueting with Luciano Pavarotti ...
Alienware's flagship gaming laptop, the Area-51 m9750, has plenty of appeal for high-end gamers, but the alien head aesthetic seems dated, and newer components are right around the corner.
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