Track Listings (11) - Disc #1| All Artists: Girl Called Eddy Title: Girl Called Eddy Members Wishing: 0 Total Copies: 0 Label: Anti Release Date: 8/10/2004 Genres: Alternative Rock, Folk, Pop, Rock Styles: British Alternative, Singer-Songwriters, Adult Alternative Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPCs: 045778671922, 8714092671919, 8714092671926, 045778671960 |
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Import only LP pressing. 2004 album from American-born singer/songwriter Erin Moran. `Eddy' or not, Eddy is a real woman and also a cracking songwriter. The music is sublime, the production is superb, why anyone could buy ... more » |
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Album Description Import only LP pressing. 2004 album from American-born singer/songwriter Erin Moran. `Eddy' or not, Eddy is a real woman and also a cracking songwriter. The music is sublime, the production is superb, why anyone could buy an allegedly similar female singer/songwriter `product' before this, is beyond understanding. Listen to 'Girls Can Really Tear You Up Inside', savagely winsome and helplessly beautiful, fatalistic charm captured, digitally, forever, for you. A complete and completely fine record, 'Heartache' recalls the genius of Karen Carpenter, 'Life Thru The Same Lens' makes Carole King sound like some tawdry Tin Pan Alley cat. Anti. Similarly Requested CDs
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CD ReviewsA thing of beauty Geoff Hall | Borehamwood, UK | 08/26/2004 (5 out of 5 stars) "Trust me, this is a fabulous album which is instantly likeable. When I first listened to her voice, I heard an accent which sounded like an American with a touch of north-country English and that couldn't be right, could it? Well, I logged onto her website and found she was from New Jersey and spent a couple of years in Sheffield, in the north of England, and the place she receorded the album. It seems she's an anglophile! She is really Erin Moran (I like her real name as much as "Eddy") and she sounds like a cross between Karen Carpenter and Chrissie Hynde, with some female Scott Walker touches - so it is appropriate that these great singers appear to be either influences of her or singers she just admires. Most of the songs are slow-paced, sensitive and downbeat, with a very 60's feel, which I found uplifting and very warm - an extremely pleasureable experience. Her voice is very easy on the ear and one which makes you want to listen closely, but when it needs to be extended/stretched, it sounds stronger, purer and even better. There are also some really nice, understated string arrangements and some lovely tight playing by her backing band. The tracks are all great songs - there is nothing here which is remotely worse than very good. However, for me, the best tracks are "Kathleen", "Golden" and "People Used To Dream About The Future"...but then again, I could name all 11 selections. This is as good a debut album as I have heard in a very long time and I hope it is a runaway success. I would like to think there is more to "Eddy" than just one album worth of sheer class. So what are you waiting for? Don't just take my word for it - go and buy this today. " What A Thrill! L.D. Mit | Los Angeles, CA United States | 09/07/2004 (4 out of 5 stars) "I was in a music store when "Girls Can Really Tear You Up Inside" played. I picked up the album and bought it then and there, not knowing if I would like anything else on it. I am very happy to say I loved the entire thing! I remember when I heard Shelby Lynne's "I Am Shelby Lynne" for the first time. I had never been so moved by an album before. "A Girl Called Eddy" is possibly the first album I've heard since then that has moved me in the same way. So few artists write music like this anymore! Eddy's (or Erin Moran's) voice is beautiful and rich, with strains of Karen Carpenter, k.d. lang, Shelby Lynne, even a little Goldfrapp in the melodies and orchestrations. These songs with their deep, brooding, twisting melodies stay with you long after the CD stops playing. "Tears All Over Town" sets the tone for the album nicely. "Girls Can Really Tear You Up Inside" grips your heart and just doesn't let go. Utterly gorgeous! "People Used To Dream About The Future" sounds like something Burt Bacarach might write. It's the sort of song that might play over the end credits of a movie (I mean that as a compliment!). Very touching. "Heartache" is beautiful with its jazz-influenced percussion. The biggest surprise is "Life Thru The Same Lens". A meloncholy lyric coupled with an upbeat tempo. It works very well. It's a great song. This is a fabulous album. So mature and polished. In the midst of skantily-clad pop wannabe's, with no substance whatsoever, being cranked out right and left, what a thrill it is to hear music like this being made. I already can't wait until her next effort." Brilliant Music floyd latruth | annapolis, md usa | 10/05/2004 (5 out of 5 stars) "This is the finest cd to come across my ears in many years. I have not stopped listening to it for a sold month. My favorite piece has changed several times as I have gotten cozy cut by cut. Now that I have listened thoroughly I can report that the last track, "Golden", is not only my favorite on this CD but the best new song I have heard in at least ten years.
To appreciate Golden's rare power you must hear it in context. As the final cut, this stirring, life-affirming song is the coda to an otherwise moody and melancholy album. It takes all the preceding heartache and loss expressed so tenderly and evocatively and makes sense of it. It evokes joy and pain simultaneously, like the greatest eulogy you've ever experienced. What is more, on this astonishingly beautiful vocal recording the last word is given to the guitar; a soaring slide solo with delicate phrasing that seems a comprehensive review of the complex emotional themes covered throughout this great work of art. This is a watershed moment rarely achieved in popular music. Imagine the climax or Orbison's Running Scared or the searing guitar at the finish of Springsteen's Incident of 57th Street, where the music makes you feel precisely as the lyrics intended. This sort of brilliance is not attained by accident. This is a supremely talented group of artists who, if they get their due, will be busy on Grammy night." |
