Emmy The Great – Virtue Released: 13 June 2011 Genre: Folk Bob Dylan, Fleetwood Mac and Marvin Gaye made great break-up albums so, now, has Emmy The Great. As Anglo-Chinese singer Emma Lee-Moss was recording her follow-up to debut album First Love, her fiance had a religious conversion and cancelled their wedding. This album documents her emotional turmoil as the relationship ended. It works, brilliantly, because Lee-Moss’s speciality is [...]
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Hysterical release date: 12 September 2011 Expectancy spoiled the party for Brooklyn/Philadelphia five-piece Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. Their self-titled debut was carried far and wide on a tidal wave of young buzz, but tricky follow-up Some Loud Thunder lacked the charm and panache of its predecessor. These are the breaks. Yet the band’s 2009 “indefinite hiatus” has not grown into the break-up widely [...]
Bon Iver – Bon Iver Released: 20 June 2011 Genre: Folk Bigger, sadder and lovelier – and that’s just Justin Vernon’s beard. His second album is pretty special too. Bon Iver’s first album landed with its own mythology: broken hearted singer Justin Vernon retreated to a hunting cabin in the woods, lived like a hermit and poured his soul into a handful of bittersweet intoxicating folk songs. Now a fully [...]
Year: 2011 Genre: Pop/Dance — Contemporary Pop/Mainstream Jessie J’s Album Who You Are Who You Are album consists of thirteen compositions most of which serve a good springboard for Jessie J – her career definitely promises to be a success. Jessie J’s vocals are hard to compare to anyone else’s in its power and the wide range, but it has the shades one can hear find listening to Pink, Nicole Scherzinger, [...]
Year: 2010 Genre: Pop/Dance — Contemporary Pop/Mainstream Loud Album Is The Reflection Of Rihanna’s Very Essence Loud album is the reflection of Rihanna’s very essence. She loves to dance, flirt, be a gentle fragile and a bold, vigorous fatal woman – but always noticeable, or loud as the so called album. It opens with the loudest song in the collection S&M which drops the flow of positive mood, fun and [...]
