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Music CD - Overpowered
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Music CD: Overpowered
List Price: $22.99
Our Price: $8.00
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Manufacturer: EMI INT'L
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Tracks:
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1. Overpowered
2. You Know Me Better
3. Checkin' On Me
4. Let Me Know
5. Movie Star
6. Primitiv
7. Footprints
8. Dear Miami
9. Cry Baby
10. Tell Everybody
11. Scarlet Ribbons
12. Body Language (Bonus Track)
13. Parallel Lives (Bonus Track)
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 5099950709021
Format: Import
Label: EMI INT'L
Manufacturer: EMI INT'L
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: EMI INT'L
Release Date: 2007-10-23
Studio: EMI INT'L
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Loooove this CD!
Comment: Best CD I have bought in ages! It's really timeless. It could have been made any time during the last 30 years. If you're in doubt..... buy it!
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Summary: An amazing album & a bit bizarre!
Comment: I really love this album. The strength of the song "Overpowered" was enough to convince me to buy the album. Other great songs are "Let Me Know" and "You Know Me Better." My only complaint is that the album does not seem very cohesive. Never-the-less the songs I mentioned are slick and sweetened with Roisin's amazing voice.
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Summary: Catchy electro-tinged dance pop
Comment: Unlike "Ruby Blue" this one is much more accessible; you'll likely hear some of this album's tracks on the dance floor, or find yourself singing to it. Sometimes it sounds like influences of Donna Summer, Goldfrapp, I won't be surprised if some of these end up on karaoke discs. It's coherent dance pop with that disco funk attitude that still makes it uniquely Roisin. For infectious dance get "Let Me Know" (this song's got to have the best intro I've heard in years), "You Know Me Better" (think 80s Madonna), "Dear Miami" (my fav track- very electro). If you're nostalgic for Moloko, get "Footprints" (very 70s) and "Tell Everybody". Need a trip-hop fix, get "Primitive" (sounds really awesome live).
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Summary: Contagiously shiny disco-pop.
Comment: Róisín Murphy, once the former Moloko frontwoman in dance-pop act Moloko, is bracingly unpredictable.
Following up her underperforming debut "Ruby Blue", her profoundly offbeat album with electronic experimentalist Matthew Herbert , she is back with her second solo album.
Now signed to EMI, she's made her most coherent album yet.
Murphy's songwriting appears to be stronger than ever with a consistent style and sound emerging throughout.
She puts this assured sense of purpose, in part, down to a recent obsession with old disco and house music.
In her own words she wanted "Overpowered" to be an album to find a link between that music and what she could achieve in a modern way.
Combining her lively songwriting ability with the contributions of a host of underground house music talent, she creates eleven songs ripe for chart success, showing contagiously shiny disco-pop.
Although she sometimes sounds like prime-time Madonna, she fuses this with an acid house energy, while her lyrics are a million miles from 'the material girl'.
The opening lines of the album, "Your data, my data/ The chromosomes match", on the ebullient "Overpowered", lead into a chorus about "oxytoxins flowing ever into my brain", while the wonderful slowie, "Dear Miami", appears to be an elegy for that city.
Somehow this lyrical eccentricity makes the thoroughly catchy tunes on offer all the more appealing.
Whether indulging in '80s funk, club bangers or rocking electroclash, Róisín allows no creative slack.
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Summary: Surprisingly good
Comment: Whereas Moloko albums were traditionally uneven, this is a very good album from start to finish. It maintains the dance anthem aspect of Moloko at nearly all entries, spotless production, highly recommended. I was very nicely surprised and rather disappointed that this has not been officially released in the US.
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Editorial Reviews:
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2007 sophomore album from Róisín Murphy, former lead vocalist for Moloko. A heady mix of electronic dance anthems, soul-stirring Pop songs, deep, dark Funk and quirky lyrical genius, Overpowered is a thrilling and contemporary marriage of edgy Pop and irresistible Disco. Róisín co-wrote and co-produced the entire album, bringing her own vision and focus to these songs whilst working with a variety of producers, writers and mixers to create what is without doubt her finest record; unpredictable, creative, inventive, exciting and hugely accessible. Working with the likes of Seiji, Andy Cato (Groove Armada), Jimmy Douglass, Ill Factor, and Parrot & Dean of All Seeing I / I Monster, Róisín has brought her love of the dance floor right to the very heart of the album. This is one of the albums of the year - a breathtaking modern classic. Features the singles 'Let Me Know' and 'Overpowered'. EMI.
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