Product Description

Whether partnered with Guy Sigsworth as Frou Frou, or on her own, Imogen Heap is an enormously gifted singer, songwriter, producer, keyboardist, and programmer. She does it all here on her second solo CD which showcases her remarkable talents. The stunning track "Hide and Seek" offers the electronic equivalent of a cappella, with only Imogen's expressive voice heard via vocoder -- an early favourite that shot right to #1 on iTunes Electronic Chart in June 2005. The song was also featured on the season finale of The O.C., and earlier in the season, The O.C. previewed another track from this album called "Goodnight and Go", a bittersweet ballad about the secret admiring of a neighbour. Comparison's have been made to Bjork, Alanis Morrisette, Joni Mitchell and Annie Lennox, among others, but no one can hold a candle to Imogen Heap. Her electronic programming and keyboarding are so textured and layered, you will hear something new with each and every listening. Her canvas is cinematic, operatic, visionary, and always surprising with twists, turns, tangents and breaks that keep the listener on a journey of the unexpected. Whether evoking a hundred piece orchestra, an electric slide guitar, or a simple vocoder, Heap weaves her magic spell. As a lyricist, Heap has a wicked sense of humour, yet can drive a knife right through your heart when you least expect it.

Track Listing

1. Headlock
2. Goodnight And Go
3. Have You Got It In You
4. Loose Ends
5. Hide And Seek
6. Clear The Area
7. Daylight Robbery
8. Walk
9. Just For Now
10. I Am In Love With You
11. Closing In
12. Moment I Said It

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1268 in Music
• Released on: 2006-04-10
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced

Customer Reviews

Hide and Seek
Hide and Seek is literally the best song I have heard this year - brilliant use of a vocorder and a fantastic vocal performance. I've recently upgraded to a decent separates system on my stereo and this is the song to test it out too.

Really, really, beautiful.

awful, tripe!!
What is up with peoples musical taste? I bought this album after reading the wonderful reviews, but Imogen's songs are incoherent rubbish. Bashed out of her studio at home she uses synths and drums from days past, the result is a dated sound. But that isn't the problem. the songs aren't great, there is no landmark tune to sing along with just utter drivel.

In the inlay card Imogen goes to great lengths thanking the people who helped her raise finance for this album, perhaps Imogen should have listened to what I'm sure were numerous labels that turned her away before she "self produced" this album. Love, your music sucks, but there openings at a well know fast food chain!

It's where your head is with this one
I first heard "Come Here Boy" (from Heap's debut album "I Megaphone") on Ned Sherrin's BBC R4 show "Loose Ends" back in 1998 and I loved it so much that I went out, found the album (the days before Amazon UK) and bought it. It's an album that has grown on me over the years; but the one thing that was apparent back then was that she is an exceptional artist.

As you do when you find something that hits a nerve, I've looked out for a new album over the years. In record stores and on here but since 1998 nothing in her own name. Until one Sunday in April last year, I was in Montreal and it was pissing down with rain and I took shelter in HMV. Soaking wet, all I could do was browse and I didn't really think I'd find anything. But there this album was, newly released and being promoted off the back of the "OC". I bought it immediately and took it back to my hotel and played it for the rest of my stay.

And I haven't stopped listening to it. It's on my iPod, in the car and here on my PC. It really is an amazing album.

So who'll like it? Well enough people has listened to this with me around; from my Russian cleaner, to the Aussie plumber, from my Colombian lodger to the wide range of friends who come for Sunday lunch. People always listen and they always ask - who is that? I can't tell you how many times I've written it down: Imogen Heap.

The thing about Imogen Heap is that she get's it; every track nails the emotion in a way that just makes you stop and think. There's an energy about her work, an honesty and a humour. There's also a universiality here - she's an amazing poet, she understands language and sound and how to play with it. It's also deeply sensual; it embraces, soothes and seduces.

I thought that she was really interesting from her first album but now I just want to know if she can better this. Another reviewer described this as one of the best albums of the 21st century. It's early days but Imogen Heap is doing something here, breaking new ground, that others will come to imitate.

A wish list of ten people around my dinner table? Well she'd certainly be one of them. Imogen - if you ever read this - it's an invitation.