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Amorino
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Track Listing
- Amorino
- The Breeze Whispered Your Name
- Monologue For An Old True Love
- October's Sky
- The Cat's Pyjamas
- Why Does My Head Hurt So?
- Johhny Come Home
- Poor Butterfly
- Love For Tomorrow
- There Is No Greater Cold
- This Land Flows With Milk
- Song For Baby
- Time Is Just The Same
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #26074 in Music
- Released on: 2006-09-04
- Number of discs: 1
- Dimensions: .22 pounds
Customer Reviews
Great Stuff!
Sensitively produced to aid the subtle nature of Ms Campbell’s delicate voice this album meanders like a trip down a country lane on a summers day. Around every corner there is a new musical delight...a lyric...a melody, and more besides.
I would recommend this album to all B + S fans, and it this similarity to her mother band that stops this record getting 5 stars. However, this is not a bad trait (for a record to sound like one of the most innovative and much loved bands from the UK) and its just goes to prove how much of a creative force she really must have been within the group.
In love with Amorino
The subject matter of this record is hotly debated, with many saying it deals with her break-up with Stuart Murdoch (of Belle and Sebastian) or just her departure from the strictures of the band, but the beauty of Isobel's first solo record under her own name cannot be debated. Building on her first two records as the Gentle Waves and her collaboration with Bill Wells - who appears on the record - she crafts a delicate and instantly recognisable soundscape from French pop, jazz standards, and the Scottish indie milieu that she is part of, but gives it all a certain edge, Adrian Utley of Portishead with his teramin backing on This Land Flows with Milk confirms this.
Listening to this record feels like being wrapped up in cotton wool with the odd rose-thorn poking gently at your skin through the fluffy white fibres. It borders on the sickly sweet, but listen to the lyrics and you'll find that Miss Campbell has a lot of edge to her, somewhat more so than her naive ex-boyfriend (not to denigrate Mr Murdoch, who is second only to Morrissey as a modern songwriter). A beautiful record.
Ahh...lovely indeed.
Bought this on the strength of Ballad of the broken seas, which I idore. Was supprised by what I heard. Really interesting with some tracks having a real 60's feel to them. Maybe not to everyone's taste, but I like it a lot.
