Product Description

Third album by American punk-soul trio The Gossip. Combining uptight funk with punk rock aesthetics and lead singer Beth Ditto's ground-shakingly passionate vocals, this album is a real treat for fans of bands such at The Rapture and The White Stripes. Includes the singles 'Standing In The Way Of Control' and 'Listen Up'.

Track Listing

1. Fire With Fire
2. Standing In The Way Of Control
3. Jealous Girls
4. Coal To Diamonds
5. Eyes Open
6. Yr Mangled Heart
7. Listen Up
8. Holy Water
9. Keeping You Alive
10. Dark Lines

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #894 in Music
• Released on: 2006-07-31
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
It's flatly unfair that the Gossip aren't a massive success, a rocknroll giant slayer, especially as they unleash another 10-song, 30-minute zinger like Standing in the Way of Control. Singer Beth Ditto's boundless, whether shouting out the title song's chorus or feather-dusting the lyric on Meg White-sounding album closer, "Dark Lines." The band rocks with an unerring simplicity, a leanness that writhes. The big-beat, hop-along (and sing-along) "Listen Up," is the centerpiece here, a stripped focus on the Gossip's core conviction, that rhythm can rock like little else. The tune has Ditto holding court over a bluntly simple one-two beat, cautioning a crowd that by rights ought to be tenfold larger: "now gather round/now listen up," warning them that "some people talk way too much." As Ditto stuns, drummer Hannah Blilie's beat pounds, and Brace Paine's guitar lays down a simple law. Ignorance of that law is no excuse. --Andrew Bartlett

Customer Reviews

Excellent
Fell in love from the first note. Beth has an amazing voice which really shines out on the track "Coal to Diamonds". Definetly a buy!

A big disappointment
I have a mantra, when it comes to buying music, that I tend to stick to - never, ever buy an album based upon the strength of it's debut single.

How I wish I'd stuck to it on this occasion.

Ok, so the Gossip have been one of the most hyped bands over the course of the year, but would they have had so much attention if their lead-singer wasn't a massively overweight lesbian with a penchant for flashing on stage? On the strength of this album, the answer certainly seems to be no.

Whilst the Title track of the album is certainly powerful, and causes a surge of adrenaline to anyone within earshot, the remaining songs are incredibly disappointing, and at times, even boring. The sound itself is thin - nothing at the bottom end to really keep the blood flowing for the duration, and the tunes themselves are flat and stale.

Passion, no doubt - but not a gread deal else.

Mama's got a brand new bag !
It's ironic that in an age when black music has slid into a lazy, creatively bankrupt blind alley, a larger than life white woman has come along to teach the MOBO crowd that soul music lives !
While what is criminally described as 'R & B'....Howlin Wolf,John Lee Hooker et al will be turning in their graves !...is being churned out as bland muzak for the Radio 1 chav masses, Beth Ditto and her band are putting the passion back into soul music.
The title track in particular is explosive and when performed live as at Glastonbury it could bring the dead back to life such is the power and energy !
A ten track 35 minute slice of throbbing soul which will blow the MOBO artists and their pop/pap out of the water !