I’m greatly enjoying Eve’s new album, Eve-olution. While some of the tracks lack the rough edge of Scorpion, the sense of progression into new areas more than makes up for this. The production is interesting – more polished and initially appearing more conventional, but then you hear the church bells, the harpsichord and the birdsong and you realise there’s a lot going on in the margins.
The title track in particular is enormous, with beats that physically rock my car so hard that the only appropriate word for them is “seismic“.
Speaking of which, I laughed as I read this morning that “the BGS said the earthquake’s epicentre could only be located to within about a kilometre, and not pinpointed to an exact street or address”. Can you imagine if such precision was indeed possible?
“The epicentre of yesterday’s earthquake was identified as 43a Union Street, Dudley. Its owner, Richard Nesbit, admitted cagily that he ‘might have uttered the phrase “Ground swallow me up!” sometime around 1am yesterday morning’, but that he couldn’t be sure.”
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Scurrilous lies. You will be hearing from my solicitor.
That’s the thing about following up on a successful creative venture, whether it’s a movie, an album, a book, or a line of leather accessories for overly-libidinous short people — the sequel is generally more polished, and you get the feeling that you’re on the business end of a commercial product moreso than an intellectual endeavor.
For instance, _Porky’s_ was great teen romp fare, but _Porky’s Revenge_ felt too produced, with it’s digital master and 3D-rendered softcore sex scenes. That’s why some people who like Soundgarden at first liked them less and less with each release, because they lost the rough metal edge in favor of echoes and bunnymen…wait…oh well.
Odd that Britney’s trying to reverse that trend, sort of. She’s a slave for your love, you know.
Muraii – in general I agree. It can be difficult to sustain the originality of a debut in any field. Having said that, my point about Eve in particular was that this is a great album despite the initial disappointment of the glossy production.
However, I can’t stomach the level of product placement that she’s getting into. You go to the ‘Gallery’ section of her website, it tries to sell you a fucking camera. That might be considered ‘street’ in certain marketing directors’ wet dreams, but I’ll choose when I want to go shopping and when I want to see pictures, thanks.
I think that Pink is attempting the same trend reversal thing as Britney – she seems to have gone from bubblegum pop icon to something that attempts to be much more raw and dangerous. You keep makin’ her ill, you know – you’re just like one of those nasty, druggy, pill things.