Nikka Costa - Pebble to a Pearl (Dig)
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Artist: Nikka CostaBrand: Baker & Taylor
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2008-10-14
Model: 00888072309425
Music Label: Stax
Soundtracks:
- Stuck On You
- Can't Please Everybody
- Pebble To A Pearl
- Someone For Everyone
- Crybaby
- Keep Wanting More
- Keep Pushin
- Love To Love You Less
- Without Love
- Damn I Said It First
- Loving You
- Bullets In The Sky
Music reviews of Pebble to a Pearl (Dig)
Music Review: 3.5 Stars... Uneven and overlong album but with some great moments
Rating: 4 Stars
Nikka Costa blew onto the music scene with her superb 2001 debut album " Everybody Got Their Something", featuring the major hit "Like a Feather". That album was co-produced by Mark Ronson, incidentally. After that, Nikka Costa seemingly dropped out of sight, only to resurface in 2005 with an okay but not great "can'tneverdidnothin" album. Now, after yet another long time away (and having been dropped from the Virgin label), Nikka Costa finally comes back with her third album, released independently.
"Pebble To A Pearl" (14 tracks; 57 min.) starts off with two tracks that seems to want to reinvent Nikka Costa into (Mark Ronson- produced) Amy Winehouse and/or Sharon Jones, and those tracks, first radio single "Stuck To You" and "Can't Please Everybody" are not bad, but don't sound like Nikka Costa's true self. The real Nikka Costa emerges on the title track that follows, and on "Cry Baby", great songs. But I rate the first half of the album only 3 stars. The second half is a LOT better, starting off with a biting "Keep Pushin'" and it doesn't let up from there, with great tracks like "Without Love" and leading to the best track of the album, the 6+ min. "Damn I Said It First", which reminds me of Bob Marley somehow. The ballad "Loving You" is fantastic too. I rate the second half of the album 4 stars.
In all, is this a bad album? Not at all, but at a running time of almost a full hour, the album would have been better served by deleting several of the weaker tracks and tightening up the flow of the album. I have to say I am slightly disappointed, despite the several highlights. That said, I cannot wait to see Nikka Costa in concert again. I saw her on the 2001 "Everybody Got Their Something" tour and she was phenomenal, reminding me of Janis Joplin in stage presence.
Description of Pebble to a Pearl (Dig)
The latest radiant gem by the gifted singer-songwriter and performer Nikka Costa -- is far and away her most direct and convincing musical statement yet. If this is Costa's most pleasing album to date -- and it clearly is -- then it's exactly because the woman singing to us so powerfully has finally found the creative freedom to first and foremost please herself.International CDs
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