Katie Melua - Album No. 8 (2020) {Deluxe Edition} CD-Rip
Artist: Katie Melua
Title: Album No. 8
Year Of Release: 2020
Label: BMG #538629282
Genre: Pop, Vocal Jazz
Quality: EAC Rip -> FLAC (Img+Cue,Log)
Total Time: 00:52:51
Total Size: 564 Mb (Full Scans)
WebSite: Album Preview
Title: Album No. 8
Year Of Release: 2020
Label: BMG #538629282
Genre: Pop, Vocal Jazz
Quality: EAC Rip -> FLAC (Img+Cue,Log)
Total Time: 00:52:51
Total Size: 564 Mb (Full Scans)
WebSite: Album Preview
Britain's Katie Melua returns to her intimate pop sound with 2020's artfully textured Album No. 8. The album is Melua's first proper studio follow-up to 2013s Ketevan and arrives four years after her majestic holiday collaboration with the Gori Women's Choir, In Winter. While a return to her original alternative pop style, Album No. 8 is nonetheless a creative departure from her past work. Produced by Leo Abrahams, it finds Melua in a deeply introspective mood, crafting lightly experimental songs that evince the influence of '70s Krautrock and more-contemporary indie rock influences. Most noticeable in this tonal shift is a change in Melua's vocals. Known for her warm, brightly resonant vocal style, here she eschews her delicate vibrato for a softer, more diffuse-sounding head voice. While the album was recorded in the wake of the end of her six-year marriage, calling Album No. 8 a breakup record feels reductive. Certainly, Melua explicitly addresses the breakup on the Brian Eno-esque "Remind Me to Forget," singing, "You're so good at hiding/But I always seem to be reminded/Love is change." Although similarly melancholy notions arrive elsewhere, as on the dusky "A Love Like That" and the yearning, post-punk-influenced "Joy," the overall sentiment is one of deep self-reflection and judgment-free musical experimentation. Fuzzy synths, skittering electronic beats, and ghostly guitars pop up throughout the album. She delves into early '80s electro-pop on "English Manner" and sinks into sweetly sad-eyed Regina Spektor balladry on "Heading Home," singing of her adolescence, "I wish I could go back and tell my younger self none of this matters, even though it hurts like hell." Album No. 8 is an intensely personal album that feels like Melua made it for herself first and foremost.
~ Matt Collar, All Music
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Track List:
01. A Love Like That [3:08]
02. English Manner [4:27]
03. Leaving the Mountain [3:36]
04. Joy [3:35]
05. Voices in the Night [4:56]
06. Maybe I Dreamt It [3:20]
07. Heading Home [3:46]
08. Your Longing is Gone [3:25]
09. Airtime [3:26]
10. Remind Me to Forget [3:38]
11. A Love Like That (Edit) [3:24]
12. Maybe I Dreamt It (Acoustic Version) [3:32]
13. A Love Like That (Acoustic Version) [2:59]
14. Your Longing Is Gone (Acoustic Version) [3:12]
15. Forever [2:25]
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