Music CD - Santogold: Santogold

	Music CD: Santogold Artist: Santogold List Price: $15.49 Our Price: $7.99 Your Save: $ 7.50 ( 48% ) Availability: In stock soon. Order now to get in line. First come, first served. Manufacturer: Downtown
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Tracks: 1. L.E.S. Artistes 2. You'll Find A Way 3. Shove It 4. Say Aha 5. Creator 6. My Superman 7. Lights Out 8. Starstruck 9. Unstoppable 10. I'm A Lady 11. Anne 12. You'll Find A Way (remix)
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0878037003420 Label: Downtown Manufacturer: Downtown Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Downtown Release Date: 2008-04-29 Studio: Downtown
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Great Debut Comment: It is wonderful to hear a debut album that is solid in its entirity. When I first put this on, I immediately thought of Dale Bozzio of Missing Persons, then Gwen Steffani, then Madonna. I was reminded of Debbie Harry of Blondie, Pauline Black of The Selecter, Annabella Lwin of BowWowWow and Siouxsie Sioux. It's all here: Synths like Gary Numan, beats like M.I.A. and even early 10,000 Maniacs (think "Planned Obsolescence" from Hope Chest). She sounds like all these amazing singers and sounds from the past while still sounding fresh, new and original. Santogold does 80s sounding New Wave, pop music, dance beats, eerie synth-pop, ska, world beat and she does them all brilliantly. I love this album. Customer Rating: Summary: a Nugget to be won... Comment: It's a diverse mix on this one. I've been diggin' "Creator" since hearing it on "Entourage" last year, so I've been expecting the drop on this one. I'm quite pleased and I look forward to hearing more good stuff from this artist. Customer Rating: Summary: a new creator with fierce realness yes! Comment: If you haven't heard of Santogold yet it's about time that you did. She's written with Lily Allen and Mark Ronson, and has been compared to MIA and Karen O. She is a college-educated singer-songwriter and producer, whose singles Creator/LES Artistes and LES artistes are released together. Her Myspace site describes her as a basement rock and Bananarama-soundclash artist, which is a wild combination but pretty accurate. She's an American lady doing an almost tribal-dancehall-electro-grime-punk-ragga fling. Creator/LES Artistes uses haunting, shrieking voice and electric whines with wonderful shifts of tone throughout aided by Freq Nasty's sublime rhythm section. Simultaneously she has a slight old school humour to her, it's reminiscent of the routes and roots of the most innovative Missy Elliott material. It's very exciting to be so close to something so rare and so new. She has this fantastic ability to blend into two tracks which sound so different and yet so the same. Her voice shows off its versatility in tone and delivery. In LES Artistes it is quirky and fine somewhere between Rihanna and Karin Dreijer Andersson of The Knife, while in Creator/LES Artistes she aggresively, rapidly, fluently raps as well as anyone. LES Artistes addresses the issues of pretentious followers and standing up for what she believes. It's a nice reminder that she had unmitigated creative control over the forthcoming album. Creator/LES Artistes sharply brings out this theme again "Me, I'm a Creator/LES Artistes, thrill is to make it up, the rules I break got me a place, up on the radar". I'm very glad she has. The suspenseful escalating drama of the single is her lyrical and sonic manifesto, and hopefully the world will listen up. Customer Rating: Summary: Amazing Comment: She sounds more like M.I.A. on "Creator" with a OOIOO/Blonde Redhead type vocalizing thrown in. On "L.E.S. Artiste", her phrasing/voice is very Karen O, who has that Siouxie Sioux tension. Furtado is a lot looser, without the staccato tempo or pop punk sensibility. The two almost Stefani moments are when she sings "I can say I hope" and "Change, change, change..." Otherwise, Stefani's voice is way more nasally with a cutesy strained effect (like when she sings "I know what you're saying" in Don't Speak). Customer Rating: Summary: Great new Artiste Comment: I too saw Santogold open for Bjork last year and have been eagerly awaiting her debut CD. I bought the singles when they became available a while ago & now the entire CD. I am not disappointed in the least! Great music, infectious beats, a truly distinctive voice - the CD is 5 Star all the way. I cannot wait to see her in person again. Hopefully she will come back to her native Philly! Standouts are L.E.S. Artistes, Creator, and Shove It! More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: "The future of music, today" - Rolling Stone 10 Artists To Watch. "Singing in a haunting, sensual wail...she adds a layer of softness to an unusual mix of synthesizers, dance hall rhythms, and percolating new wave" - NY Times. "Future-pop princess...next big thing" - Spin. "Santi White is Santogold...the collaborators and players may change, the sounds may shift, but at the center is one woman's indelible vision" - The Fader. SXSW / Coachella shows, 2007 tours with Bjork, M.I.A., songs featured in Entourage, Grey's Anatomy, Grand Theft Auto.