Mass

Mass Artist: Amanda Thorpe
Label: Redeye Distribution
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 660355968624
EAN: 0660355968624
ASIN: B00005ATWG


Release Date: 2001-02-27

Mass


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Tracks:

  1. This Dear City
  2. Eyes Of An Angel
  3. Always
  4. Toy Guitar
  5. Better Left
  6. By You
  7. Them There Eyes
  8. High & Dry
  9. Splinters
  10. Hymn

Album Description

From artful storytelling to the pulsing rhythms and languid beauty of trip-hop, the music of Amanda Thorpe is never easy to pigeonhole (though it tends to lodge snugly in the subconscious). While staying true to her strong sense of melody, Amanda's smart, often intensely personal songs with roots in folk and jazz subtly challenge our expectations of familiar forms. Her influences are as diverse as haunted British pop-poet, Nick Drake, and the sultry Francois Hardy, to guitar-god and wordsmith Richard Thompson, the Velvet Underground and Blondie. <P>Amanda's EP, “Too Many Spirits,” is a collection of deceptively simple folk-pop tunes that highlight her poetic and harmonic sensibility. Spirits' songs range in mood from romantic exuberance to jazzy melancholy. A unique voice in the crowded cosmos of downtown performers, Amanda's entrancing new CD, “Mass,” again displays her powerful and haunting vocals over a sonic landscape laced with trip-hop and dreamy textures. As was recently noted in Variety.com, Amanda's vocals "balance brassiness and vulnerability with panache." While the song “Always” resembles an ultra-hip interpretation of a 1940s nightclub standard, the sing-along guitar pop of “Splinters” and coffeehouse intimacy of “Toy Guitar” reveal an artist who moves confidently between the traditional and the modern.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Good "mood CD".......2002-01-25

My first impression upon listening to "Mass" was that these are pretty and sexy songs. Good for background music. But then I realized that I was actually humming the songs to myself when I wasn't listening to it. I pulled it out again and really paid attention to it. The style of songs can range from smoky jazz ("This Dear City") to soft-core trip hop ("Always").

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