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構成数 |
1 |
国内/輸入 |
輸入 (アメリカ盤) |
パッケージ仕様 |
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発売日 |
2012年08月07日 |
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規格品番 |
88697591322 |
レーベル |
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SKU |
886975913220 |
ソニー・ミュージック
構成数 | 1枚
合計収録時間 | 00:41:32
Audio Mixer: Manny Marroquin. Recording information: Jungle City Studios, New York, NY; Larrabee Sound Studio, North Hollywood, CA; Skip Saylor Studios, Northridge, CA; Soulstar Studios, Brooklyn, NY. It would be restrictive to compare Elle Varner to Chrisette Michele and Jazmine Sullivan, but the parallels are inescapable. As with her predecessors' debuts, Perfectly Imperfect sounds like the assured work of a singer and songwriter -- one who co-composes and co-produces her material -- who is on her third or fourth album. There are vocal similarities, too. Varner's delivery is magnetizing with a slight rasp, though she's neither as jazz-rooted nor as showy as Chrisette, and she never goes in the red like Jazmine. After a couple spins of Perfectly Imperfect -- principally made with young bucks Andrew "Pop" Wansel and Warren "Oak" Felder, along with some assistance from Varner's father, Jimmy -- her individuality pokes through. There's the playful anguish expressed in "Refill," a booming rattler with some twinkle and jittery fiddle, where Varner likens nerve-wracked flirting to acting tipsy: "Feel like a conversational lush, and I don't know how much is too much." Few songs evoke emotional butterflies as brilliantly as "I Don't Care," a production that swoons and stutters to augment Varner's love-struck bind: "I'm not designed for this/If I could speak in code, I wouldn't be so bold/I can't control my lips, lips, lips." It's something of a paradox that, for all of Varner's creative certitude, an overwhelming majority of her lyrics are self-deprecating. While the romping "Sound Proof Room" has a lot of presence, the album is thick with apprehension, doubt, and distanced longing. There's so much of it that one fights the urge to tell the woman to take figurative and literal looks in the mirror. This doesn't detract from the material; in fact, Varner's feelings are conveyed in such imaginative and clever ways that the second half's strummy pop and folk detours go down smoothly. This is one of 2012's most pleasing and promising debuts. The wait for the follow-up, whatever the length, will be far too long. ~ Andy Kellman
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1.[CD]
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1.Only Wanna Give It to You
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2.Refill
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3.Sound Proof Room
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4.I Don't Care
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5.Not Tonight
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6.Leaf
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7.Oh What a Night
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8.Stop the Clock
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9.Welcome Home
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10.Damn Good Friends
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11.So Fly
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アリシア・キーズを発掘したMBKの贈る逸材……という宣伝文句が安易に思えるとしたら、ジャズミン・サリヴァン登場時のような期待感を背負った、直球のR&Bを展開する久々の大型新人だと言っておけばいいか。J・コールを迎えた昨年のデビュー曲“Only Wanna Give It ToYou”から近年では珍しい流麗な雰囲気が話題になっていたが、そのへんのセンスは両親がバイ・オール・ミーンズのジミー・ヴァーナー&マイクリン・ロデリックという血筋もあってこそか。とはいえ、ポップ・ワンゼル&オークらのサウンドは往年のリスナーのツボも現代的に押してくるから頼もしい。ヒップホップ・ソウルというタームじゃなく、〈ヒップホップ・クワイエットストーム〉と呼びたい趣の、都会的なカッコ良さに満ちた名品!
bounce (C)出嶌孝次タワーレコード (vol.347(2012年8月25日発行号)掲載)
#1「Only Wanna Give It to You」から#4「I Don't Care」にかけて、90年代R&Bを彷彿とさせるメロディと彼女の伸びやかかつパワフルなヴォーカルが楽しめる1枚。そのあとの曲は…なので★3です。
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