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Astrid

表演者: Astrid

专辑类型: Import

介质: Audio CD

发行时间: 2003-11-10

唱片数: 1

出版者: Incarnation

条形码: 0783707762821

专辑简介

Astrid Williamson came to notice as the creative lynchpin (mercurial voice, guitar ambition and beautiful songs) of Goya Dress. Their debut ‘Rooms’, produced by John Cale, was critically well received as was Astrid's first solo album ‘Boy For You’. Follow up ‘Astrid’ is essentially an album of love songs, a relationship postmortem. More eloquent and graceful than your basic "broken-hearted-wench" album, it has a sensation of grace under pressure, of comfortable intimacy balanced with vulnerability. ‘Calling’ invokes the spirit of Carole King's piano based pop with a momentum and a chorus that begs to be thrust into the mainstream in place of other, lesser singer-songwriters. Opening track ‘Never Enough’ and ‘To Love You’ match it for immediacy while ‘Love’, recalls Tanya Donnelly. All round it's a beautiful combination. ‘Call For Beauty’ has a beautifully gaunt, but accessible, drum pulse and twinkling electronics that end the album proper on an optimistic note ! "Call for beauty / to know you are alive". But before that, the album has to go through its painful emotional fall-out and rawer ballads. ‘Blood Horizon’ is redemptive "Well I know that the world is full of grieving and I feel ashamed by the things that make me cry", ‘Girlfriend’ is plaintive and acoustic, but it's the piano-voice duet ‘Tumbling Into Blue’ and the eerie ‘Bye & Bye’ that sound like the songs that Astrid sang with tears in her eyes. ‘Bye And Bye’ is almost hymnal, although its ghostly ambience and painful lyrics are closer to a personal hell than a restorative heaven. "Making this album felt almost like emotional stripping. There wasn't a lot of hiding behind poetry and illusion." Astrid maintains this album is "the purest and most honest" she's written to date and ironically –by avoiding it- the most accessible. - Martin Aston

曲目

Close My Eyes (Acoustic Demo)

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