- Purchase a product from the Music Store sold by Amazon.co.uk and receive £1 to use on an album download in our MP3 Store. Here's how (terms and conditions apply)
Amazon.co.uk allows you to pay for your items in your local currency. Restrictions apply. Learn More. |
Special Offers and Product Promotions
Frequently Bought Together
Product details
|
Listen to Samples and Buy MP3s
Songs from this album are available to purchase as MP3s. Click on "Buy MP3" or
view the MP3 Album.
|
Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
Alisha's Attic--Dagenham sisters Karen and Shellie Poole--went from Next Big Thing status to the Where Are They Now? file at alarming speed. Their first album, the Dave Stewart-produced Alisha Rules The World, spawned hits in the title track and "I Am I Feel," and briefly looked as if its title might become a self-fulfilling prophecy. For whatever reason, it didn't, and its follow-up is a--perhaps understandably--dispirited affair. The tunes are never quite catchy, the lyrics never quite comprehensible, and the whole sounds like the work of people who need to think hard about whether this is really what they want to be doing with their time. --Andrew Mueller
Product Description
EX/EX
Suggested Tags from Similar Products(What's this?)Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product)
|
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Disappointing follow-up,
By Lizard (London town) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Illumina (Audio CD)
In contrast to the other reviews posted here, I wasn't bowled over by Illumina. After the outstanding pop-classic that was Alisha Rules The World, the girls seemed poised for chart domination as well as critical success, and perhaps Illumina suffered from this pressure. The only single to chart well, The Incidentals, is certainly one of the better tracks on the album, and would have seemed more at home on their first. The feel of the album is much moodier and thicker than Alisha Rules The World, and the impression is that they are trying to move away from the infectious brightness that had become their trademark. This is a mistake, as they do not seem entirely comfortable in their new slightly drum-and-bass tinged sound. The absence of Dave Stewart's production is striking, as the majority of Illumina seems muddy and undistinguished. Even after several plays, most of the tracks blur into each other (with the exception of Resistor, Barbarella and the aforementioned The Incidentals).I have awarded this album 3 stars, although perhaps this is slightly generous and affected by my huge affection for their other albums. It's not that Illumina is bad - it is perfectly pleasant. It is more that it is hugely disappionting, and belies a very genuine talent on the part of the Poole sisters for creating truly great pop.
5.0 out of 5 stars
The girls did it again!,
By
This review is from: Illumina (Audio CD)
I love this! Of the 3 albums the girls have produced, its most certainly the best. Its not as angry teenageer as 'Alisha rules the world' and not as mellow and grown up as 'The house that we built'. Its more like youre in youre early 20s, with some experience of how love is, awear of its pitfalls and disapointments at times, but still hopeful and wanting to find the one...if that makes any sense!? Its got a very relaxing quality to it, without being a chill out record. The best songs are undoubtably 'The incidentals,(the line..'breathing on the back of my neck and making me feel weak inside' just sums up a moment Im sure we've all felt with someone sometime) 'Resistor', 'Air and angels', 'Are you jelous?' and 'Dive in', although theres not one weak moment or song Id want 2 skip past. This is an incredable album and a fantastic way to get from the amazing 'Alisha rules the world' to the sublime 'The house that we built'...buy it!!!!
4.0 out of 5 stars
Ruling a different world,
By
This review is from: Illumina (Audio CD)
This album really has very little relation to Alisha's Attic's previous offering - I mean, just compare the cover photographs - but what they are doing on this album they do very well. Less kooky, certainly, but still with an originality that sets this album apart from the background-listening category. No track as good as 'I Am, I Feel,' but The Incidentals is brilliant, and there are none of the excessively-kooky tracks that irked me somewhat on their debut (cf. Golden Rule, Personality Lines...)They can still give a tune, can still sing, can still write lyrics - tick in every box, really.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
Most Recent Customer Reviews |
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Listmania!
|
|
![the best albums ever [ in no particular order]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51FKruvxZZL._AA60_.jpg)
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
