Love in the Time of Science

Artist: Emiliana Torrini
Label: Msi
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 5016958039820
ASIN: B00002MOZ3

Release Date: 1999-10-26

Love in the Time of Science

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Tracks:

To Be Free
Wednesday's Child
Baby Blue
Dead Things
Unemployed In Summertime
Easy
Fingertips
Telepathy
Tuna Fish
Summerbreeze
Sea People

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Album Description

1999 debut album by female artist with a voice similar to Bjork in her oh so quiet moments, and signed to the same label the former Sugarcubes female vocalist is on, One Little Indian. The haunting & mysterious album falls somewhere between Portishead & Dusty Springfield, was produced by Tears For Fears' Roland Orzabal, features guest drumming from Siggi (Sugarcubes) and Clive Deamer (Portishead), and includes the singles 'To Be Free', 'Dead Things' & 'Baby Blue'. 11 tracks total. 1999 release.

Album Details

Emiliani Torrini Has Spent the Last Six Months Working with Roland Orzabal (Tears for Fears). Siggi (Sugarcubes), Clive Deamer (Portishead Drummer).

Customer Reviews:

Emiliana's voice is soothing.......2004-06-13

This is one of the greatest CD's I have purchased in about a year or so. After I recieved my copy, I listened to it and it didn't leave my car CD player for a good month...it's that good!!!!!!! Do yourselves a favor and BUY THIS CD!
The haunting style coupled with her smooth voice is terrific. For those that have a sub in their car.. it will give that sub a nice work out with the low bass tones. It almost holds you down in your seat as this bass blanket covers you. Dang its good!! BUY THIS CD!!!!!!!

Go to an eerie place.......2004-03-21

Most people have heard her unique vocals, singing the hauntingly, sorrowfully creepy "Gollum's Song" during the closing credits of "Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers." But very few people know Icelandic singer Emiliana Torrini by name. Which is a shame, because her trip-hop/electronica album, "Love in the Time of Science," is a unforgettable one.

While sitting firmly on a seat of trip-hop and gentle pop, Torrini stretches her wings with a variety of musical types. It's made up of light electronica like the cool, sweet "To Be Free," and murky pop ballads with a slightly morbid edge. "Keep my daughter in a jar/she can't get out/she won't go far," Torrini croons in one song.

She keeps the cool, dark edge with the eerie "Wednesday's Child" and "Telepathy," the offbeat jazz of "Dead Things," and even a few songs that are fun and upbeat pop, singing about friends who hang out and goof around in the summertime. There's even alien avant-pop that defies classification, where Torrini sings creepily about how tuna fish float with "bellies to the moon."

Comparisons to Bjork are inevitable, since they hail from the same country and have similar vocal styles. However, Torrini's music is smoother and less distant, less electronic and more organic. It's also graced with more traditional instrumentation and a warmer sound. Her music is a different shade of electronica-pop.

Her voice has a haunted, slightly eerie quality. Furthermore, it has the flexibility to be warm one moment, chilly and creepy the next, allowing her to gracefully slide from one kind of song to another. Her thick Icelandic accent makes her singing even more enchanting.

The writing of the songs ranges from surreal ("Tuna Fish") to pleasantly ordinary ("Summerbreeze"), using simple and evocative words for jumbled feelings. "But if it's so good being free/Would you mind telling me/Why I don't know what to do with myself?" she asks plaintively at the very start.

Far from a Bjork clone, Emiliana Torrini produces a superb solo album. Combining the best of electronica, pop and jazz, "Love in the Time of Science" is startlingly memorable and well worth it.

underrated? yes.......2004-03-08

Not to repeat all that has already been said, But I felt I needed to just throw in my 2 cents. This CD is amazing. There is also a cover she did of 'Sounds of Silence' that I would recommend you get a hold of as well. Enjoy.

Never make it in the States?.......2003-04-26

Ha! The Two Towers has taken care of that. This album will find its way around the US to those who love that voice. Just thought I'd say that, and since this isn't really a board I'll say something else commentary. From what I've heard, which hasn't been too much... she has an awesome voice. Her singing is full of emotion, unlike all of the stupid pop music here in the USA, her voice is very refreshing. I would, and when I have the money, will buy this CD along with the TTT soundtrack.

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