Mark E. wrote: > I'm curious what you think of 'Ghostyhead', Michael. > It's not the > easiest record for me to listen to but I do think > it's brilliant.
I *love* _Ghostyhead_. Back when everyone and their proverbial dog was playing around with trip-hop production, RLJ was one of the very few (besides bona fide trip-hop artists) to pull it off, and I think it's because she approached it as much for its sensibility as its sound. Its experimentalism and moodiness are good fits for her, and she really managed to extend her palette here rather than simply overlay some vaguely hip-hop-jazzy electrobeats onto her standard work. As for k.d.--I do like some things on _Drag_, but on the whole I think it a bit uninvolving. _Invincible Summer_ I find totally boring. I have no problems with fun records--one of the reasons I love _Music_ so much is that it revels so unreservedly in pure joy. It's just that nothing on _Summer_ really grabs me. Now _All That You Can Eat_ is a criminally underrated album in my opinion. There are some great adult pop ditties on there! --Michael NP: Wilco, _Being There_ ===== ____________________________________________________________ "Greetings cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time." --Zadie Smith, _White Teeth_ Find the one for you at Yahoo! Personals http://personals.yahoo.com
