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Disco de Howie Day: “Stop All the World Now [Japan Bonus Tracks]”
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Stop All the World Now [Japan Bonus Tracks] |
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Fecha de Publicación:2004-08-03
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Tipo:Desconocido
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Género:Adult Alternative, Today's Big Hits, Beatles Legacy
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Sello Discográfico:Sony Japan
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Letras Explícitas:Si
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UPC:4547366015171
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{$Howie Day}'s debut certainly showed promise, especially in the understated heartbreak of {&"Ghost"} and {&"Morning After."} But even in its eventual {@Sony} reissue, {^Australia} was a slapdash, often obvious album that rang with the stubbornness of youth. In his songs of relationships and loneliness, {$Day} was too often the spurned boyfriend rewriting {$Radiohead} and {$Badly Drawn Boy} songs to air his grievances down at the local open-mic night. Given his principal influences, it's not surprising that {$Day} recorded his sophomore effort in London. But he seems to have grown up quite a bit since {^Australia}, and with the help of {$Verve} and {$James} producer {$Youth}, made {^Stop All the World Now} his great leap forward. He'll never outrun comparisons to wide-eyed romantics like {$Francis Healy} and {$Richard Ashcroft}. But instead of simply copping moves, {$Day} has captured the formless yet boundless emotion that's the spiritual motor for both {$Ashcroft}'s solo work and {$Travis}' {^The Man Who}. Lyrically, {&"Brace Yourself"} and {&"Trouble in Here"} aren't as specific in their aims; unlike {^Australia}, they never make the listener feel like the she-devil who trampled poor {$Howie}'s heart. Their big, beautiful arrangements embrace his voice, which soars into fluttering, higher registers, but also grates with real, pleading grit toward the end of {&"Brace Yourself."} Echoing electric guitars recall {$Day}'s effects-laden 2002 tour, which found him performing over his own multiply looped self. But the presence of piano, harmonium, vibraphone, and {$the London Session Orchestra} (most notably on {&"I'll Take You On"}) often suggest {$Burt Bacharach} with swelling strings and lilting verses; there's even a sample of what sounds like crashing waves at one point, pulling out all the stops in the production department. All of this lets you know that {^Stop All the World Now} isn't simply an acoustic troubadour album. But if you needed more proof, there's {&"She Says."} Originally one of {^Australia}'s strongest moments, the song's acoustic frame is here bowed out by a full-on arrangement of keening strings, steadily building drums, and enough reverb to fill the Grand Canyon. "When she says she wants someone to love/Hope you know/She doesn't mean you" was always one of his strongest couplets; with the triumphant guitars and surging violins behind it; the track now has the full grandeur of {$U2}'s most plaintive moments. The best part? {$Day} has figured out how to sell the emotion as his own, even if the hymns of his heroes still echo throughout his music. [This Japanese release includes bonus material.] ~ Johnny Loftus, All Music Guide
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