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Music to my ears
The Heights – The Heights (subscription) – Feb 25, 2008
“Parrot House Vestibule”: This song idea is for a “jam band” or ? I don’t know Dave Matthews; someone who does drugs. It doesn’t make sense because it doesn’t have to. The song should feature “trippy” electronic music under incomprehensible lyrics. The audience will then smoke pot and pretend to understand it.
Favorites: For musical life work ethic highly instrumental
mainetoday.com – Feb 25, 2008
They sell high-quality fully licensed high-bit-rate audio files like singles. It’s a way to get the latest breaking stuff from Italy let’s say and you don’t have to spend $20 for the vinyl and $20 for the shipping.
Music Review | John Lloyd Young
New York Times – Feb 25, 2008
” He was not well served by a band and two backup singers under the direction of Ed Alstrom that captured the tinny sound and mechanized beats of early-’60s pop but failed to include crucial textural ingredients of vintage hits like the musitron the electronic organ that gave “Runaway” its giddy spinning momentum. Saturday’s program built up to the “Jersey Boys” showstopper “Can’t Take My Eyes ff You. ” A song that might have redeemed the evening had it been given room to expand and provide the cathartic release that everyone was waiting for was cut short leaving the audience frustrated.
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New York Times – Feb 25, 2008
And “Discipline” is a headphone album full of Ping-Ponging sound effects and whispered ad-libs. From “Rollercoaster” (in which a riotous beat upstages the goofy lyrics) to “So Much Betta” (a mutant house-music confection) this album should remind listeners that Ms. Jackson helped invent the hybrid electronic R&B sound that currently rules the pop charts. And “Greatest X” a collaboration with The-Dream has something that’s sometimes lacking elsewhere: a huge hummable chorus. If anything “Discipline” may be too subtle: a pretty smartly produced collection that sometimes sounds like background music. And the spoken interludes (nine of them!) aren’t welcome distractions. Keep listening though and you’ll eventually get to the title track a masochistic fantasia in which she begs “Take out your frustrations on me… “The rchard” is an album of songs in search of love and few of them find anything that looks like happily ever after. The music is unhurried and the instrumentation discreet making Ms. Wright’s entreaties more intimate. Wright wrote half of the album’s songs together.