Label: EMI Int'l
Category: Music
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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
UPC: 724353501327
EAN: 0724353501327
ASIN: B000066SE5
Release Date: 2002-06-18
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Artist: Danielle Spencer
Label: EMI Int'l Category: Music Average customer rating:
Format: Import Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 UPC: 724353501327 EAN: 0724353501327 ASIN: B000066SE5 Release Date: 2002-06-18 |
White Monkey
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With Comparisons to Kate Bush, Tori Amos and Madonna, Danielle Has Produced a Broad and Polished Album. Including the Singles 'jonathon White', 'blast Off' and 'forgive Me', it was Produced by Vince Pizzinga and Mixed by Andy Bradfield who Has Workedwtih Everything but the Girl and Massive Attack.Customer Reviews:
Danielle Spencer's White Monkey, a great beginning.......2003-03-05
Gorgeous!.......2002-11-24
Danielle Spencer is Russell Crowe's on-again off-again girlfriend.
Okay, now that we've got that out of the way, one wonders if her longstanding relationship with Crowe (which goes back some twelve years, to the two of them filming a painfully bad indie film called The Crossing in 1990) has eclipsed, rather than enhanced, Spencer's long and obscure musical career. Over the past three years, she's jettisoned the bands she's been working with and set out to write her own material. White Monkey is the first full-length showcase of the results. And while it's an inconsistent piece of work, the first word that comes to mind is still "brilliant."
The album doesn't really seem sure of where it wants to go. It shifts gears time after time in tone and form and never really comes to rest anywhere. This isn't to say the low points are bad; they're just not spectacular. (Put all of the album's ballads into this category.) There's nothing in them you haven't heard before in many places, and they've gotten Spencer compared to such disparate artists as Madonna, Kate Bush, and Portishead. (I will hasten to add here that anything on this album stands well above Portishead's painful "Nobody Loves Me" or Madonna's... well, take your pick from among Madonna's more empty-headed songs, of which there are a myriad.) The gods must have been smiling on Spencer as she recorded this album, because the low points accentuate the high points. I'm not exactly sure how it works, but having a song like "White Monkey" in a sea of soft rock makes it that much more stunning. It's "White Monkey" and its companion pieces that make this album stand out. They're dark, brooding, nasty, with streaks of lyrical dada three feet wide running straight down the middle. Drum machines straight out of Tricky's best work, ethereal synthesizers, and jagged guitar lines. This is a woman who knows how to package depression for the masses. (She learned from the best; there's a Cure cover on the B-side of the "Blast Off" single.)
Just when we thought girlpop was dead, the last two years have seen a revival of the art in its purest form. Add Danielle Spencer to the list of keepers. *** ½
Fresh and fun CD.......2002-06-08
Buy 3 and share with others!!!.......2002-05-10
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