Creation

Creation Artist: Nina Hynes
Label: Reverb Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 653837410025
EAN: 0653837410025
ASIN: B00000JBY1


Release Date: 1999-05-01

Creation


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Tracks:

  1. William Tell
  2. This Magic Stuff
  3. He Turned the Light Off
  4. Trigger
  5. Out of the Tunnel
  6. Bring Me Alive
  7. .......

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  1. Staros

Amazon.com's Best of 1999

On their debut CD, Creation, Nina Hynes and band have created a dense and dreamlike atmosphere that even in its darkest moments is sure to bring spine-tingling joy to all listeners. Hynes sings with a self-assured emotional and dynamic intensity that marks her as an artist to keep an eye on. --Michael Wells

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Nina Hynes and band have produced a sonic landscape on Creation that is at once lulling and charged with an exhilarating energy. Although there's much complexity packed into this debut EP--both in the emotional and dynamic range of Hynes's voice and in the dense, sample-heavy production of Joe Chester--there's also a delicate, shoe-gazer pop accessibility here that can be likened to the Sundays and Irish compatriots the Cranberries. With breathy vocals that recall Tanya Donelly (Belly, Throwing Muses), Hynes proclaims her undying devotion to an absent friend or lover on the stand-out track "This Magic Stuff." There's a palpable tension felt here, crafted with deceptively cheery jangle guitar layered over tautly angular bass and drum tracks. The most breathtaking music on Creation occurs during the ethereal reprise to "Bring Me Alive"--in the hushed, spine-tingling moments after the song climax's with propulsive, My Bloody Valentine crescendos of thickly layered guitar. --Michael Wells

Album Description

CREATION, the debut from Ireland's NINA HYNES, has finally found its way out into the unsuspecting world. The release firmly represents an experimental departure in music coming out of Ireland and will certainly put NINA's name in the Irish music history books as a pure innovator. <P>The songs on CREATION cover a vast territory of sound; Starting off with the technology and dark electronica driven rhythms of "William Tell," listeners will undoubtedly identify NINA's beautiful voice as the central character to the musical landscapes they are about to travel through. What follows is a world of the ethereal and otherworldly in "He Turned The Light Out", and just when the listener thought they left earth, "Trigger" brings them back down with a thud with pulverizing sample and guitar based alternative fuzz. "This Magic Stuff," a deceptively radio friendly pop song, will taunt those who enter with lyrics of love and longing while strangely opening up the world of NINA HYNES to all those who dare. <P>The CD has received a warm response in America and is currently getting airplay on the few U.S. radio stations it has been leaked to. Nic Harcourt @ KCRW in L.A. has been a big champion of NINA on his Morning Becomes Eclectic show, calling her music "a cross between Bjork and Massive Attack... Perfect end of the century pop," which has led to strong West coast interest and a movie soundtrack offer. Bruce Warren @ "tastemaker" radio station WXPN in Philadelphia described the release best; "It's just beautiful. This is just an incredible sound and the songs are terrific." One of NINA's songs was recently used during NBC's U.S. T.V. coverage of the 1999 French Open.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Can't wait for Staros.......2002-07-28

I have seen Nina play on several occasions...always different, always magical.Creation is lush and beautiful, soft and hard .Gorgeous voice of Nina.I have heard some of her first full lenght album Staros (which just came out in Ireland)....I can't wait to buy it too.I think it comes out in America in the fall.Amazon should get a copy now!Important music!!

4 out of 5 stars Nina Hynes - New Irish Viewpoint.......2001-06-12

Nina Hynes grew up in Dublin in a pub, listening to and surrounded by music all her life. Her first CD, Creation, has only six songs, but they are an ecclectic and fresh approach to today's rather unstylistic music scene. The best song, This Magic Stuff, is very captivating. However, the other songs are an interesting bonus. They may take a few tries to get accustomed to, but I like it.

5 out of 5 stars I've got a lump in my throat about..........2001-03-17

Moving. An underpinning not unlike Radiohead, KID A - before the release of KID A. The hidden track at the end of six is part Vangelis part Van Gogh. Nina's is the honeyed voice of the girl you fell in love with in kindergarten. I look forward to more.

5 out of 5 stars Listening to the samples should be enough to convince you........2000-02-10

Lovers of Bjork may actually find themselves feeling blasphemous after hearing Nina Hynes sing. The sound is similar to Bjork, but there is something extra there that we may all find that we were wanting to hear all along. Add to this a band who understands her and finds a unique balance of support and accompaniment, and you have something that is unfortunately rare in the music industry of late: a good album. Every song has its own sound, ambient at times, hard edged at others, and every sound in between. The music is full of emotion that will lull you one moment, and build you into a frenzy the next. "This Magic Stuff" is one of the most unique and powerful songs I have heard since the Sugarcubes'"Birthday." I have never felt I should promote a band before, but I truly feel that everyone should listen to this music. It could very well save the world.

5 out of 5 stars Amazing!.......1999-12-21

This is an amazing CD. I've seen the band live on several occasions in Dublin and New York. I never ever thought that they could capture the power, spirit and soul of their live shows onto a recording, but they have. Believe me. Very well produced/recorded and overall just an amazing, amazing sound...

THIS MAGIC STUFF is probably destined to be an alternative legend of a song, while HE TURNED THE LIGHT OFF is a song that, while listening to it, you can almost see sparkles in the air; Beautiful and seriously surreal. TRIGGER is much harder edged and definitely makes you think that there is some musical genius at work here. The finale, BRING ME ALIVE showcases the whole band. In it, Nina's striking voice almost becomes another instrument as the song descends into My Bloody Valentine territory. Bloody incredible...

As you can tell, I'm convinced. If you haven't seen them live or heard this debut, DO IT! It's important. While this band are nothing like their compatriots U2, they tread the same powerful ground with songs from the soul and music that sends tingles up your spine. More please!

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