Emiliana Torrini - Fishermans Woman
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Artist: Emiliana TorriniEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2005-04-26
Music Label: Rough Trade Us
Soundtracks:
- Nothing Brings Me Down
- Sunny Road
- Snow
- Life Saver
- Honeymoon Child
- Today Has Been OK
- Next Time Around
- Heartstopper
- At Least It Was
- Fisherman's Woman
- Thinking Out Loud
- Serenade
Music reviews of Fishermans Woman
Music Review: Nothing brings me down
Rating: 4 Stars
Icelandic singer Emiliana Torrini captured the audience's ears with the exquisite "Gollum's Song" in the second "Lord of the Rings" movie, then with her U.S. debut "Love in the Time of Science." Now her long-awaited fourth album, "Fisherman's Woman" has come -- and it was worth the wait.
In "Love in the Time of Science," the sound was exotic trip-hop. This time around, Torrini opts for a more organic sound. For instance, the downtempo "Lifesaver" sounds like it was recorded in a boat -- there are wooden creaks just under Torrini's gentle acoustic guitar and wistful vocals, as if she were sitting in the middle of a lake when she recorded it.
That same feeling sticks to the other songs on the album. Torrini seems to be thinking about loss, but her songs are never really quite tragic: the opener "Nothing Brings Me Down" is a good example, with its stripped-down guitar-and-piano sound, followed by the exquisite "Sunny Road," and ending with the entrancingly dark "Serenade."
It's a pretty drastic thing to change your sound after a successful first album. But Torrini not only does it, she succeeds again. The same sense of eerie romance that was in "Love in the Time of Science" is in "Fisherman's Woman" as well, but it's more intimate. And sad. As beautiful as Torrini's trip-hop is, her acoustic ballads are just as lovely.
Don't expect programming or blips. No trip-hop. "Fisherman's woman" is all about a more organic sound, mainly using a quiet acoustic guitar for the instrumentation. A few other things pop up -- a few sound samples, mellow piano -- but guitar is the heart and soul of the music. It's not too hard to imagine Torrini and her guitar sitting by a riverside, playing to passers-by.
And Torrini's voice doesn't lose any of its beauty because of the lack of production; her quirky, childlike, slightly creaky voice is as endearing as ever, but here it's unencumbered by electronics. "And it's funny how your cause/makes no sense at all," she sings in "Lifesaver." For someone so sad, she sounds almost playful.
With her last album, Emiliana Torrini showed that she was a pop singer to watch. In the intimate "Fisherman's Woman," she embraces a whole other kind -- gentle, dreamlike folkpop.
Description of Fishermans Woman
"Home alone and happy / Nothing brings me down" So opens Emiliana Torrini?s second album, a soft-yet-searing collection of twelve intimate and atmospheric songs that will whisper their way into your bloodstream. Back in 1999, when the singer released the critically acclaimed Love In The Time Of Science, Emiliana came out with a gorgeous, electronic trippoppin? vision of endless summer and moonlit nights out. Following her departure from One Little Indian, there?s a new introspection, closer to Nick Drake or Jolie Holland than Portishead or Goldfrapp. The 27-year-old singer and writer has nonetheless been busy since Love In The Time Of Science. She moved to Brighton, joined the cast of Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers to perform the enchanting ?Gollum Song? wrote and toured with Thievery Corporation, and wrote a Number One Hit for Kylie Minogue in the shape of huge-selling pop smash "Slow."Alternative Rock CDs
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