Track Listing

1. Untouchable Face
2. Outta Me Onto You
3. Superhero
4. Dilate
5. Amazing Grace
6. Napoleon
7. Shameless
8. Done Wrong
9. Going Down
10. Adam And Eve
11. Joyful Girl

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #37476 in Music
• Released on: 2002-03-25
• Number of discs: 1

CD Description
Expanding musically beyond the folk-rock-ish guitar pop of its two immediate predecessors, NOT A PRETTY GIRL and OUT OFRANGE, Ani DiFranco's seventh album in six years adds Hammond organ, synthesizer, bass, and even trumpet to what was once a stark musical vision. Though DiFranco supplies much of the instrumentation, longtime drummer Andy Stochansky and a few other collaborators assist.
DiFranco successfully expands her musical frontiers without compromising her fierce self-determination. As always, this is a major lyrical theme on DILATE, particularly on the title track and "Napoleon", ascathing and self-aware treatise on DiFranco's tenuous position as a best-selling "voice for women". Critics were puzzled by the keyboard-led, beat-heavy rearrangement of the spiritual "Amazing Grace", but DiFranco's next releases, the Utah Phillips collaboration THE PAST DIDN'T GO ANYWHERE and theMORE JOY, LESS SHAME remix EP, explored this new musical direction in greater detail.

Customer Reviews

Always worth it
This is a very good well rounded album by Ani Difranco. You've got your soft, sad and sorrowful tunes to cry to (Done wrong, Adam and Eve, Joyful Girl, Untouchable face), your beaty angry tunes (Outta Me Into You, Napoleon, Shameless, Going Down, Superhero) and one bizarre 'cover' (Amazing Grace). So far the best Ani Difranco album I've bought for listening to over and over again.

For those of you who've never heard Ani Difranco (and this is a worthy one to get as your first) I guess the main features of this music are poetic angry lyrics mixed in with soft wailing tunes, great guitar playing blended in with interesting beats and background instrumentals. You can cry or lull yourself to sleep on the soft tunes and thump in rhythm or rage (non-violently) with the harder beatful ones. Over all the album is rich in sound, interesting and just plain good to listen to.

Out-alanising Alanis
Ironic, don't you think, that since before Alanis could wail, the lesser-known but greater-gifted Ani DiFranco has been producing love and life power songs deep from the soul, with lyrics so spot on that you feel like they were written for you, regardless of whether you've been there or not. This is her best album (Little Plastic Castles being a close second) and if you don't own it, don't know it, haven't felt the pure emotion that is Ani, then your life is seriously incomplete (or you've never had any problems in your life and are too happy for your own good).

Great album
I really think this album is a real good album, I give it 4 stars because I save the 5 for the real masterworks, however this is a great CD to listen to. Very acoustic, apart from a couple of songs with a bit more rhytm, and a really great composing skill. I don't think she's got anything to do with Alanis Morrisette, who is much more pop and rock..Ani is definitely folk, more talented, and a real rebel! Musically the highest moments are Out of me, Napoleon and Joyful girl, but on average the whole album is quite good.