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Grace Potter And The Nocturnals
I'm disappointed with this album, and I'm a big fan of theirs. Their earlier albums capture their live performances better, especially "This Is Somewhere." It seems to me many of the songs on this new album was hastily written, and the sound quality is a bit more processed/compressed.
Agree with you. It was my first listen as it arrived today. I only got a little more than half way through it before hitting the stop button. I'll go back to it when I'm in the mood for it.
Fan also though ltr IMHO Nothing but the Water is the fav for both captured performance and sound quality
To each his own.
Emily Jane White's singing voice, wispy and sweet but undercut with an alluring world-weary weight, lends itself to brow-furrowing introspection and rustic tales of woe. And there are more than a few songs like this on her second album, Victorian America. She doesn't go out of her way to invoke a comparison to Cat Power, but during certain moments it's difficult to not notice the flattering (albeit striking) resemblance. If dour tracks like "Never Dead" and "The Baby" don't outright mimic Chan Marshall's indomitable style, they're at least more than a little beholden to her.To White's credit, though, she doesn't let these impressions linger-- even at their most bathetic, her songs are buoyed with helpings of strings, pedal steel, and other instrumental touches that play their part without overstating their presence. The title track, a string-swept ballad that makes references to Hurricane Katrina, is a perfect example. Instead of overselling the drama, White maintains a certain distance from the emotion the song conveys, singing the lyrics in a stately and precise fashion. The musical accompaniment ably mimics this elegant pose, turning the song into something much more affecting...http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/14209-victorian-america/
Follow-up to The Script's debut album from Dubliners Danny O’Donoghue, Mark Sheehan and Glen Power. "For The First Time" is the lead track and is the inspirational key to The Script’s second album Science & Faith - an addictive blend of hip hop rhythms, flowing melodies, sparkling hooks and poignant, story-spinning lyrics, with Danny’s mellifluous soulful vocals riding high over huge, anthemic choruses. Finding weighty, emotion-packed mini-epics came thick and fast, Science & Faith is far from a difficult second album.
