Nolita

Artist: Keren Ann
Label: EMI Int'l
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 724387564206
EAN: 0724387564206
ASIN: B000683IB4

Release Date: 2004-12-21

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Listmania:

Best French releases 2003 - 2004

Tracks:

Que N' Ai-Je?
Greatest You Can Find
Chelesa Burns
One Day Without
Forme et le Fond
Nolita
Roses & Hips
MIDI Dans le Salon de la Duchesse
Onde Amère
For You and I
Song of Alice

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Customer Reviews:

Keren Ann, Nolita.......2005-03-07

Keren Ann's third French release is mostly guitar pop; she sings softly, but well up in the mix, so it feels as if she's sitting there on a stool in your living room, with her eyes closed while her accompanist strums a guitar or taps out a rhythm on a tambourine. Songs like "midi dans le salon..." sound like Village Preservation-era Kinks, with a sexy alto singer instead of Ray Davies, while "One Day Without" takes a more earnest, acoustic-folk approach.

The songs all have pretty much the same dirge-like tempo and the same earnest vocal treatments, however, which wouldn't be a detriment if the lyrics were deep and complicated and sought an emotional connection. Verses like "land slides and grips onto a side rock/fool's got eyes/and I don't" (from Roses & Hips), however, just seem opaque, as if they had been translated from Dutch to Hebrew to French to German to English.

For a record named after a hoppin', thrivin' New York neighborhood smack in the middle of a bunch of other distinctive neighborhoods, "Nolita" sounds curiously pure and refined. Didn't Keren Ann ever get a little kick from hearing "In Da Club" blasting out of someone's hooptie stalled in traffic on the Bowery, or the sounds of Chinese fishmongers gossiping?

A direct hit to the pleasure center.......2005-02-14

There are people -- and you know who you are -- who can't get enough of a very specific kind of record: a whispery, sparely orchestrated, gorgeous-yet-melancholy soundscape with an achingly vulnerable singer at dead center. Think Nick Drake, Francoise Hardy, Beth Orton, BLUE-period Joni Mitchell, or the Velvet Underground's eponymous third album. Well, I am certainly one of those kind of people, and NOLITA is exactly the kind of record that floats my particular boat. I can't believe I've managed to overlook Keren Ann's existence until now. The only thing that makes me happier than the prospect of listening to NOLITA again is the prospect of checking out her previous work!

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