From: owner-navy-soup-digest@smoe.org (navy-soup-digest) To: navy-soup-digest@smoe.org Subject: navy-soup-digest V7 #89 Reply-To: navy-soup@smoe.org Sender: owner-navy-soup-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-navy-soup-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk navy-soup-digest Sunday, October 24 2004 Volume 07 : Number 089 In This Digest: ----------------- winnipeg sun album review [bisontentacle ] soulshine review [bisontentacle ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 16:09:43 -0400 From: bisontentacle Subject: winnipeg sun album review SARAH SLEAN Day One Warner Sarah Slean's middle name is flamboyant. Though it could just as easily be eccentric, quirky, eclectic or just plain freaky. On her fourth full-length Day One, the Toronto singer-pianist presents more evidence to further the theory that she is the spiritual love child of Kate Bush, Tori Amos, Tom Waits and Hawksley Workman -- with a little Sally Bowles thrown in for good measure. But this time out, cabaret-popster Slean also gets into a whole new groove. Day One is Slean's most rhythmically dynamic work yet, with funkier backbeats, choppier guitars, livelier percussion and more all-around bounce to the ounce than you usually find in her minor-key piano-girl torch ballads. Coupled with the off-kilter appeal of her girlish voice, poppier cuts like Luckier Me wouldn't sound too far out of place on a Gwen Stefani solo album. If that isn't the sign of a new day for Sarah, we don't know what would be. Slean gets her groove on tomorrow at the West End Cultural Centre. ***1/2 -- DS ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 15:31:55 -0400 From: bisontentacle Subject: soulshine review don't think this has been posted yet... Sarah Slean Album Title: Day One Release Date: October 26, 2004 Rating: *** Genre: Pop Its actually quite amazing how much energy Sarah Slean manages to pack into that tiny pixie-esque form of hers. Those who have seen the singer perform live know she carries the air of an escaped psychiatric patient about her  but in a good way. The lovable lunacy that is Sarah Slean and her quirky pop music has never translated better onto a recording than it does on Day One. Her personality shines through on the record, giving the music a quality which is greatly lacking in most of the mainstream fluff floating around. While Day One gives more insight into the singer herself, the album is not a match musically for Sleans major-label debut Night Bugs. Less piano driven and with more mainstream leanings, Day One lacks the punch that her previous effort packed. That being said, the uplifting title-track of Day One is one of the tastiest slices of pop perfection Slean has offered up to date. Writer: Jaclyn Arndt ------------------------------ End of navy-soup-digest V7 #89 ******************************