Monarch

Category: Music Average customer rating: Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 UPC: 629256002325 EAN: 0629256002325 ASIN: B00002SFNP Release Date: 1999-09-12

Listmania:

1. Best of Evan Cranley

Tracks:

1. Family
2. Onliest
3. La Sirena
4. One Year a.d.
5. Monarch
6. That's What I Say, It's Not What I Mean
7. Flight #303
8. Still True
9. The Mast
10. New Torch

Customer Reviews:

Mellow and Sweet!.......2004-02-18

Excellent album, traversing genres........2000-08-16

Leslie Feist's songwriting arsenal is mind-boggling. Lyrically she sometimes implements word-play like The Loud Family's Scott Miller, sometimes cool, narrative poetry a la Suzanne Vega, sometimes romantic, simple invocations like traditional pop lyricists. And Feist mixes her own guitar playing, a prominent string section (brilliant arranged by Dave Szigeti), keyboards and drums in surprising, fresh ways, with parts that leap out at you at unexpected places that always give the songs a new texture. And her singing is sublime, at points slightly off-key when she feels like it, but then exploding into soaring bursts of pure emotion. The title track, with its heralding violin strains and nonstop tunefulness, is my favourite; "It's Cool to Love Your Family" begins the album on a wry, funky note; "La Sirena" is beautiful, evoking a feeling of loneliness and mild threat akin to Lisa Germano's Geek the Girl; "That's What I Say, It's Not What I Mean" is a pretty, pleading waltz; dazzling multipart vocals light up the rhythmically tricky ballad "Still True"; and "The Mast" is possibly the most moving melody on the whole record, Feist showing off her voice accompanied by a minimal instrumental backdrop.

This is a record I would've very much liked a lyric sheet to given Feist's very eccentric songwriting topicality and choice of lyrics. Other than that, I'm on board for the whole ride.

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1. Ray Charles - Soul Genius ~ Ray Charles
2. 80's #1 Pop Hits ~ Various Artists
3. Let Go (+1 Bonus Track) (+ Bonus DVD) ~ Avril Lavigne
4. Goodbye England's Rose: Candle in the Wind 1997 ~ Various Artists
5. Truth Decay ~ T-Bone Burnett
6. Sounds of the Circus - Volume 5 ~ South Shore Concert Band
7. An Angel's Touch
8. Christmas With Donald And Debbie ~ Donald O'connor, Debbie Reynolds
9. Natural, Pt. 2 ~ S Club 7
10. Pretty Baby ~ Vanessa Carlton

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