Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4495 in Music
• Released on: 2007-12-10
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Some candy talking ..and i like what they have to say
It's occasionally good to buy an album by somebody you know nothing about, and believe you me I knew absolutely zilch about Glass Candy. The album itself doesn't give much away either. It's basically two sheets of gaudy cardboard inside a plastic sleeve . The band are a two piece -Ida No on phlegmatic vocal duty -not that it tells you that either . I deduced the phlegmatic bit from listening to the album .I'm helpful like that me. All instruments-basically synthesizers- are by Johnny Jewel who also produces . All nine songs are self penned by Glass Candy apart from a glacial cover of Kraftwerk,s "Computer Love". That's all I know.
Apart from of course whether it's any good or not which is not really something I know for sure but is just a well formed opinion...or so I like to think. Happily I can report B/E/A/T/B/O/X is for the most part an pleasurable experience.
After the dull spoken "Introduction" No intones "Hit it DJ" and fat squelch keyboards kick in for the splendidly dreamy "Beatific " .No is an amazingly un -self conscious and indolent performer , her vocals profess "I feel so lovely " but she sounds like she couldn't care less about anything . This is strangely seductive. The rest of the album continues in pretty much the same vein . Bass Sequencers throb in 4/4 time , keyboard melodies skitter or glide across your peripheral vision. On "Candy Castle" glorious runs of synth trumpet puncture the arrangement while turning all 70,s funky on "Rolling Down The Hills" over widescreen backing. "Life After Sundown " is stately Italian disco and though "Last Night I Met A Costume" is a rather mundane instrumental final track "Digital Versicolour " is hypnotic iridescent Krautrock with a breathy No vocal. .
In fact the most annoying thing about this album is that comes up on my Windows media player as their first album "Love Love Love" which rather confuses the issue. Other than that taking a shot in the dark on Glass Candy has proved to be an inspired move. As it says on the inner sleeve "Italians Do It Better" (That's the label Glass Candy are on) On the evidence of the exasperatingly titled B/E/A/T/B/O/X they might be right.