Grace Potter and the Nocturnals - Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
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Artist: Grace Potter and the NocturnalsEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2010-06-08
Music Label: Hollywood Records
Soundtracks:
- Paris (ooh la la)
- Oasis
- Medicine
- Goodbye Kiss
- Tiny Light
- Colors
- Only Love
- Money
- One Short Night
- Low Road
- That Phone
- Hot Summer Night
- Things I Never Needed
Music reviews of Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
Music Review: How come nobody has mentioned the lousy sound of this CD?
Rating: 4 Stars
Let me begin by saying that I do really like this band. I personally tend to prefer the earlier albums, but that's just a personal preference, and this album will probably grow on me over time. But its biggest problem is not with the music itself, it's with the production values of the disc. Overall, it sounds terrible to me. It's recorded far too loud, with far too much compression and audible distortion in places. I haven't noticed this problem on any of the other GP&N releases, but this one really does sound pretty awful. Sorry, but it does! What a waste. It could have been so much better.
For the last couple of decades the music industry has been fighting what's now referred to as a "loudness war" in which each album apparently tries to "out-loud" the others. The intent, of course it to make tracks from that album stand out on the radio or when played with other discs on "shuffle play". There is a general, though completely misguided, assumption that louder automatically sounds better. Years ago, when I sold hifi gear for a living, we found that folks almost invariably perceived a speaker that played louder to sound better, even though when the levels were equalized the louder speaker in reality often had inferior sound. Playing off of this phenomenon, the music industry now has a practice of using excess compression and outright loudness to presumably trick people into paying more attention. And the results have been abominable. Some albums from recent years have been almost painful to listen to for this very reason. This is nothing new of course, it's a practice used decades ago on 45 singles to make them sound better on jukeboxes and AM radio. But those days should be over and done with. Before you label me a crackpot, do a quick online search and you will find many articles from audio-oriented magazines and other sources; people who care about good sound have been complaining about this for years. You'll even find complaints about this very album from fans on the Grace Potter and the Nocturnals website. And the last time I looked they were being summarily dismissed. Such is the state of the music biz today.
Look, loudness is great. I happen to believe that playing most music loud is the best way to fully appreciate it. But ONLY if the sound is CLEAN. Over-the-top compression and distortion don't sound good at any volume. I really don't believe that the band intended for their latest release to sound this bad, and the fact that it does is really a crying shame. To quote myself from above, what a waste-- it could have been so much better. This is a great little band, and both they and their fans deserve better than this.
Description of Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals are like a modern-day version of Tina Turner stroking the microphone in a spangled mini-dress while fronting the Rolling Stones circa Sticky Fingers. The proof is there for all to hear on the band's third album for Hollywood Records and marks an artistic breakthrough for a vital young band caught in the act of fulfilling its immense promise. Little wonder that Grace and her cohorts have chosen to title it, directly and emphatically, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals. Album produced by Mark Batson (Jay-Z, Dr Dre, Alicia Keys).Alternative Rock CDs
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