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Jan 13 2006
OTO Rating: 7/10
Kirsty Hawkshaw, formerly of the mildly-successful Opus III, returns to the music world with the solo release Meta Message. During her work in the early 90s, Kirsty (through her work with groups like Orbital and Hybrid) helped lend new dimensions to dance music by combining female vocals with ethereal dance beats.
Track listing:
01 [...]
Jan 06 2006
OTO Rating: 6/10
Classical punk. Not classic punk (Sex Pistols, Buzzcocks, Ramones). No, classical punk. I.e., Beethoven with a Mohawk. Chopin with a nose ring. Something to that extent.
Track listing:
01 Century Trilogy, Pt. 1: Conquest
02 Who Took Berlin, Pt. 1
03 Who Took Berlin, Pt. 2
04 Sealake
05 Century Trilogy, Pt. 2: Empire
06 Prelude to the Fall
07 [...]
Jan 05 2006
OTO Rating: 8/10
Soulful, piano-driven girl pop can be either transcendent (Tori Amos) or pretentious (erm, Tori Amos). Luckily, the debut album by The Hope manages to be largely the former. By blending diverse elements such as classic-rock guitars and Celtic influences, The Hope takes a tired genre and makes it new.
The Hope consists [...]
Jan 03 2006
OTO Rating: 8/10
What exactly is this? No matter how many times I listen to Sabrosa Purr, I still can’t put my finger on it. The only word that really, truly applies is “moody,” so that’ll be used with great frequency in this review.
Track listing:
01 Nous sommes…
02 Sabrosa Purr, Pt. 1
03 …by the water
04 The [...]