Reviews

Greetings from autumny Finland and welcome to All About Music! Time to review some records I´ve been listening to lately. I can´t wait for the new Kate Bush album to be released! After hearing the first single it sounds promising, especially if you liked Aerial. We´ll have to wait awhile for that one though...

Here we have another installment to the Soul Heaven series by the New Jersey team Blaze. I always loved their blend of soulful house and here we have same stuff spread on 2 mixed cds and 1 unmixed compilation of Blaze´s productions. The album starts of with latin tunes on both cds and evolves to deep house territory from there. Luckily it doesn´t go too deep and has vocals which usually keep lacking from house these days imho. The album was bit deeper stuff than what I expected and some tracks are qutie similar. Still the mixes build well and have quality tunes to keep things rolling. What I expected was more jazzy/gospel house and there aren´t many of that style. Still I´d say this is quality house cd worth getting for lovers of Blaze.


Here we have totally unknown name for me which I think deserves to be mentioned. This Is The Day starts off with beautiful folk song A Small Dream. After this gorgeous opening cd moves to rock and has even hints of country. Through the cd these styles keep take turns and this makes it bit confusing for me. It felt like the cd doesn´t know what it wants to be. To be honest, I loved the acoustic songs, they were beautiful and had tons of feeling, rest of the songs didn´t work for me. Singer has good voice and has small hint of Damien Rice in it. also went too pop for me from time to time. I´d say it is worth giving a go definetly, especially if you like folk and rock/pop with hint of country

Can´t Stop Dreaming


I finally got this cd to my collection and I just gotta recommend it! It is step back to Felt Mountain era finally! I dare to say this could very well be big sister of Felt Mountain. It is nicely laid-back affair with good melodies for which I love about Goldfrapp. It is just beautiful cd, good one to listen to on a dark autumn evening with candles lit. If Felt Mountain was bit sad, this is optimistic and hopeful cd. I can´t explain it, it just gave me a bit sunny feeling. I am lost for words, so you better decide what you think of:)

Happiness

Clowns

Kate Bush and Hey Heather

Hi all and welcome to another edition of All About Music! New Kate Bush single is always an event and here we have Wild Man from upcoming 50 Words For Snow cd. The song is long 7 minutes. What can I say about it? I liked it, it reminds a lot of Aerial material, so some fans might be disappointed with it. It is melodically easy to listen, lyrics are on the darker side. Very promising first take on the album, especially since I really liked Aerial and got into Kate´s world through that album.

Second review is from Finn band Hey Heather. Here´s totally new band for me, but they´ve gotten plays on local music channel. The band plays well together and you can hear they´ve been practising and it paid off well. Singer has rough rock voice, which works well in Hey heather´s rock. Influences to my ear come from punk and grunge. Somehow band reminded me partially of Bush, can´t explain it maybe it was slower parts that had some similar feeling. This might not be excatly my kind of music, but definetly worth checking out if you like your rock energetic and uptempo! What I liked was their energy, which you really can feel. I checked a live clip from Youtube and they seem to be at home at stage, a big plus. Recommended to all rock fans!

Hey Heather Drop dead

Anna Ternheim Leaving On A Mayday Box set

Hi all!

Time to tell my opinion of this box set, which I bought few weeks ago and finally had time to go through it. Leaving On A Mayday is a good album from Anna Ternheim. I like her voice and the cd is enough different from her previous cds. Title track is more uptempo than most of her previous songs and works well. Hew ear for melodies does not fail this time at all, all songs are beautiful and nice. Also good point is that cd isn´t too long, which tends to be the fault with many cds these days.

I leave main cd there and concentrate on different versions of this cd. There are 3 different editions of this cd: regular, cd+Frank Sinatra cover ep and cd+live ep+acoustic dvd. My vote goes for cd+Frank Sinatra definetly. Those 5 covers are beautiful and quite different from original ones. They are acoustic versions and arrangements compliment Anna´s voice perfectly. As for the package, it´s beautful box and that also makes it worth getting:) As for dvd edition, I was disappointed with it. Live ep is good, better than most of her live ones I´ve heard and quality is good. There´s 5 songs on the ep, my guess is recorded in France but I´m not sure. As for dvd, it was boring. Ok, the acoustic versions were nice, but would be better on a ep than on a dvd. Dvd only shows making the acoustic versions, filming Anna playing guitar, singing and so on, so it´s nothing that special. I hoped for better dvd than this. Think carefully before getting this one. The live ep makes it worth considering unless you´re hardcore fan or completist.

Anna Ternheim No, I don´t remember (acoustic)

Summer Rain

What Have I Done