Esthero - We R In Need Of A Musical ReVoLuTIoN!
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Artist: EstheroEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2009-10-13
Music Label: Reprise Records
Soundtracks:
- We R In Need Of A Musical Revolution
- Gone
- Everyday is a Holiday (With You)
- This Lullabye
- I Drive Alone
- Amber and Tiger's Eye
Music reviews of We R In Need Of A Musical ReVoLuTIoN!
Music Review: Another Breath From Esthero
Rating: 4 Stars
First, I might've given this album 5 stars but for the impression that it's incomplete and as such trying to fill an extreme void of anticipation for this immeasurably talented and sadly overlooked artist. Yes, it's an EP -- but even for an EP the songs are all over the place, each song like an hors d'oeuvre in Esthero's music style buffet. Each of the six tracks is produced by a different combination of collaborators, and while each track bears Esthero's thumbprint on co-production, there's a weakness in having too many fingers in the pie.
But it's Esthero's vocal stylings--her slightly-burred, smooth-as-chocolate voice combined with her knack for putting just exactly the right tone to every stylistic interpretation--that makes "We R In Need..." such a (guilty) sonic indulgence. The title track and "Gone" (which features Cee-Lo Green) both recall her recent single release "O.G. Bitch" with their hip-hop rhythms and funky bass lines; "I Drive Alone" is a trip-hop pleaser with Buddha Bar-esque percussion; "This Lullaby" (like the non-album bonus track "I Love You" also from O.G. Bitch) has an easygoing, Brazilian samba beat replete with horn section and Esthero "bah-bah-bahdah-ah-aah"ing her way gently over the guitar track; "Everyday Is A Holiday (WIth You)" is a light, fluffy bit of happy-go-lucky, Beatlesque retro pop and even features Sean Lennon on piano and guitar; and "Amber and Tiger's Eye", the album's so-called *bonus track*, has Esthero doing her best ambient electronica à la "Swallow Me" (Breath From Another).
This final track, though lovely and perfect for a candlelit bath surrounded by incense, is probably the weakest of the six (although not in and of itself), because there's almost nothing rhythmically, stylistically or vocally tying it to the other five numbers. The underlying instrumentals--mainly synthesizers, distorted strings and atmospheric effects--stretch out across seven-and-a-half minutes for a somewhat eerie, I'm-standing-on-a-cliff-in-the-fog-somewhere-in-Scotland experience. Hence, I'm willing to bet, the afterthought of adding it as a "bonus track".
For the record, Esthero has proved with the EP "We R In Need of a Musical Revolution" that she can samba, trip-hop, funk, torch, balladeer, and rock out with the best of them. But for her next full-length follow up to "Breath From Another" hopefully she'll have sorted out her schizophrenic tastes and gotten them to all get along in the same room. But I give it four stars, if not for sheer audacity, then for the fact that Esthero is one of those rare artists' artist--hey, she ain't no Ashanti or Brittany Spears...and thank heaven for that--who refuses to conform to anyone's idea of what women in music should be or sound like.
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