From: owner-wireless-digest@smoe.org (wireless-digest) To: wireless-digest@smoe.org Subject: wireless-digest V5 #14 Reply-To: wireless@smoe.org Sender: owner-wireless-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-wireless-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk wireless-digest Tuesday, November 19 2002 Volume 05 : Number 014 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [Wireless] Fwd: Frou Frou, Details [Neb Rodgers ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 09:21:16 -0800 (PST) From: Neb Rodgers Subject: [Wireless] Fwd: Frou Frou, Details Interesting review about the 'Details' cd from the Ethereality Yahoo group. - -Neb - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 16:29:54 -0800 (PST) From: Craig Gidney Subject: Frou Frou, Details. Personnel: Imogen Heap, Guy Sigsworth 1. Let Go 2. Breathe In 3. It's Good To Be In Love 4. Must Be Dreaming 5. Psychobabble 6. Only Got One 7. Shh 8. Hear Me Out 9. Maddening Shroud 10. Flicks 11. The Dumbing Down Of Love http://www.froufrou.net Guy Sigworth is an ace electronica producer, known for his work with Bjork and Madonna. Imogen Heap is a singer-songwriter, possessed of a strong voice that can sound like Tori Amos one minute, and Sinead O'Connor the next. Both are multi-instrumentalists with a penchant for hook-laden electronic pop and literate, witty lyrics. 'Details' is slick enough in production to appeal to the more adventurous Madonna crowd, while maintaining its quirks. The whole album goes down easy, like junk food. A CGI-soundscape of glittery technology and jittery beats, Frou Frou is so damn catchy. A cat-and-mouse game is sonically played out, with synthetic sounds chasing acoustic ones, only to meld together and reform. Individual songs transform like puzzle boxes, effortless hopping genres. Each of the songs is worthy of single status; they are finely-honed and stock full of surprises. The songwriting is top notch, with lyrics that, sometimes humorously, sometimes poignantly, take a look at relationships. 'Psychobabble' a dramatic song, has the best lyrics, with its extended of metaphor of a hostage situation: "Do just what I tell you/And no-one will get hurt/ Dont come in any closer." This song also features a spellbinding appearance of the Bollywood Orchestra, 'Hear Me Out' has a sly reference to Regis Philbin. Heap's voice is rich and mature; it's hard to believe that she's so young. She inhabits each setting perfectly, like a good actress. She sounds amused on 'Shh,' resigned on 'The Dumbing Down of Love.' Heap's voice, like Sigworth's sugary production, threatens to become histrionic. This is the delicious tension that fuels this CD. - - --Craig ===== Esoteric, atmostpheric literature, music and movies: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ethereality/ - ------------------------------ ===== _________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site http://webhosting.yahoo.com ____________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a message to wireless-request@smoe.org with UNSUBSCRIBE as the body of your message ____________________________________________________________ wireless :: imogen heap : http://imogenheap.cjb.net ------------------------------ End of wireless-digest V5 #14 *****************************