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Ben Lee Album: “Hey You Yes You [Japan Bonus Track]”
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Hey You Yes You [Japan Bonus Track] |
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Release Date:2003-11-17
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Type:Unknown
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Genre:Folk, Cool As Folk, The Coffeehouse
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Label:Cutting Edge
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Explicit Lyrics:Yes
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UPC:4945817650528
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Review - :
When {@Grand Royal} folded after the release of {$Ben Lee}'s third album, he was thrown into artistic limbo in the U.S., incapable of building on the momentum from his sorta successful third album, {^Breathing Tornados}. Despite a few low-key tours in 2001 -- when he debuted most of the material from what would become his fourth album -- he dropped off the radar, relegated to the status of "{$Claire Danes}' boyfriend" and little else. But when {^Hey You, Yes You}, his fourth record, finally did appear at the tail end of 2002 as an Australian import, it showed that {$Lee} didn't stop growing even though he couldn't release any records. {^Hey You, Yes You} takes the sonic experimentation that {$Lee} sketched out on the polished, shiny {^Breathing Tornados} and expands it into trippier, more beat-heavy territory, due largely to producer {$Dan the Automator}. The two are a perfect match, since {$Dan the Automator} creates an adventurous sonic landscape for {$Lee}'s pleasant but typical songs, making the record sound for all the world like a much more tuneful version of the {^Gorillaz} record. If {$Lee} hadn't started down this path with {^Tornados}, {^Hey You, Yes You} might've sounded forced, but instead it sounds perfectly natural; {$Lee} wants to write simple, basic, guitar-oriented {\pop} songs, but he wants enough musical bric-a-brac around to make things colorful and interesting. Like his previous efforts, {^Hey You, Yes You} is delightfully unpretentious and incessantly catchy, whether it's on typical {$Lee} {\power poppers} like {&"Running With Scissors"} or gorgeous power {\ballads} (the {$Jason Schwartzman} co-penned {&"Chills"}), or when he's playing with his newfound grooviness, such as on the spacy {&"Dirty Mind"} or the intense {&"Something Borrowed, Something Blue."} [A Japanese version added a bonus track.] ~ Jason Damas, All Music Guide
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