N.E.R.D - Seeing Sounds
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Artist: N.E.R.DBrand: Baker
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2008-06-10
Model: 00602517743243
Music Label: Interscope Records
Product features:
- N.E.R.D. SEEING SOUNDS
- Time For Some Action
- Everyone Nose (All The Girls Standing In The Line For The Bathroom)
- Windows
- Anti Matter
- Spaz
- Yeah You
- Sooner or Later
- Happy
- Kill Joy
- Love Bomb
- You Know What
- Laugh About It
Music reviews of Seeing Sounds
Music Review: 3'5 - They're Back and Everyone Nose!
Rating: 4 Stars
N.E.R.D or (No one ever really dies) is the hobby project of the superproducers The Neptunes, Pharell Williams and Chad Hugo with the assistence from Shay Haley. They make the kind of music that neither Pharell nor The Neptunes could do by themselves. Instead N.E.R.D is more exprimental with alot of Rock influences and Pharell has never made a secret of being a long time Rock fan. In 2002 they recored their debut album In Search of... which was an instant success, although it lacked big single hits (Lapdance and Provider being the closest) it was an artistic fulfillment of talented producers doing it by themselves (and it later triggered a myraid of other producers going solo) But N.E.R.D's debut album is diffrent cause it sound completely diffrent from their usual stuff and proved their musical versatility, Although the original released album (in Europe only) from 2001 was much better and less stripped down with it's rock arrangement but instead with more drum machines and synthesizers. Check it out cause it sounds very diffrent!. However, the band released another good release in 2004 called Fly or Die with a simular formula to their debut, at the time of it's release the neptunes were the most popular producers in the world and it even led to Pharell going solo with In My Mind which was a mix between Hip Hop and 80's inspired Prince R&B. The album didn't get very good reviews even if it wasn't bad in any means. In recent yeras the were close childhood friend Pharell and Chad went seperate ways in their production, and we had Pharell producing Madonna while Chad produced Ashlee Simpson some time ago. On this, third album we have Pharell producing most of the songs and setting the standard for how it's gonna sound, with Hugo only co-producing 3 songs. This album is also more exprimental with more R&B and Funk influeces then Rock, on the other hand it feels more beatoriented then the last album with some awesome and un-orthodox trademark Neptunes beats. The problem with this is the lack of hooks and good lyrics too!, but then again Neptunes are first and formemost beatmakers not pretty pop hook makers.
This album seems to have anything from songs sounding like Lapdance, Provider and even beat-oriented songs like Milshake and Boys that they produced for Kelis and Britney. With other words it's exprimental but it got something for anyone. Opener is called "Time for Some Action" and it starts with Pharell talking by his youth and how he could "see sounds" when he closed his eyes. The rest of the song got nothing to do with his youth but the bassline is deadly but it feels a bit limited. The next song is the first single "Everyone Nose" which is an beat-oriented exprimental song with another remarkable bassline and deals with partying girls "standing in the line for the bathroom". It also get a little repetitive after sometime. "Windows" with it's rock riffs is a midtempo that sounds like it came out in the middle of British Invasion. I never bothered much with the lyrics but I don't think Pharell cares much himself. "Anti Matter" is a rock song in fast pace with aggressive bass and a girl singing the hook. It's stands out as one of the highlights. "Spaz" is simular to their first single and is also a beatoriented song with rather odd arrangements, Pharell sound like a metal-rapper here but it also lack a good hook. "Yeah You" with a very simular bass as the rest is slower with more latin-jazz inspired sound. The next song is called "Sooner Or Later" and is a beatlesque pop-song a bit simular to "Provider" that starts with stripped down arrangements concentrating non melody and hook, eventually it speeds up and becomes a real rocker with guitar solo's and majestic arrangements, highlight. "Happy" is a simular rock song, but slightly faster and ditto with "Kill Joy". Next song "Love Bomb" is another Provider kind of song, it's got a nice hook though even if I could live without the lyrics. "You Know What" is another proof of Pharell's obsession with disco, and reminds me of the songs he did for Madonna. Not my cup of tea, we're in not in 1978 come on!. The beats for the closer "Laugh About It" are probably the best here and it compensates Pharell's inadequate vocals. The song is good anyway. On the British version there's also a song called "Laser Gun" which is more Hip Hopish then anything and sound like it could've been given to Kelis just aswell. A shame it was just a bonus song.
Overall, This album obviously suffer from limitations in vocals, lyrics and hooks but the beats and arrangement compensate for that. I don't think many new fans will be won over with this but old fans should be content. Like aformentioned, There's also more variety in this release then on their last two with more diversity in sound and production. Either way, it's a solid album and you probably get what you expected. 3'5 stars.
Description of Seeing Sounds
N.E.R.D. "Seeing Sounds"You already know the story of the Neptunes, Grammy Award winning producers and songwriters Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo, but the N.E.R.D. trio consists of Pharrell Williams, Chad Hugo, and longtime friend and creative wunderkind, Shae Haley. The album is a blistering mash-up of booming hip-hop beats and rollercoastering rock riffs, rumbling crunk rhythms and scintillating soul music. Whereas their first album, "In Search Of...," was an imaginative, exploration of identities, and their second album, "Fly or Die," sought out the range of genres and sounds that have influenced the group, "Seeing Sounds" grinds everything together, evoking a sound that is un-tethered by preconceptions and convention. It is also an album that amplifies the style and attitudes that have made Pharrell, Chad and Shae transcendent cultural icons.
"The Neptunes is what we do, but N.E.R.D. is who we are. It's our life" says Pharrell. The three of them together combine for uninhibited explorations of sounds, emotions and truth, adhering to no agenda, subscribing to no rules. N.E.R.D. is the way they live their life, they way they see the world.
The title of N.E.R.D's third album, Seeing Sounds, was inspired by a TV show the ban watched about synaesthesia--the neurological disorder that causes people to experience sounds as colours or objects in their minds. The concept inspired the trio (Pharrell Williams, Chad Hugo, a.k.a. The Neptunes, and their rapping pal Shay Haley) to create a record as if it were a live show, as if the listener were really able to see the band playing. As ideas go, it's a dubious one, but it does give the band the opportunity to dive back into their musical ocean and splash noisily around, leaving listeners soaked and astounded. With the usual disregard for genre, Seeing Sounds opens with bass-heavy low-rider "Time For Some Action", before heading off on an intense roller-coaster ride that takes in the choppy, digi-drum & bass of "Spaz" and the infectious booty-bass of single "Everyone Nose" (a look at Hollywood's cocaine obsession) via a veritable kaleidoscope of colourful sound. "Sooner or Later" is all smooth Motown soul, "Kill Joy" is riff-heavy rock and "Anti Matter" has an Atari crunk feel. This breathless diversity is, of course, what N.E.R.D. are best at, and the good news is that Seeing Sounds can be considered a return to form after the nadir of Fly Or Die; though Whether it stands up to their debut or whether their new experiments ever get beyond the superficial, is another matter entirely. -- Paul Sullivan
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