| Nedelle and Thom / Summerland |
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| Album: | Summerland | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Nedelle and Thom | Added: | Oct 2004 | |
| Label: | Kill Rock Stars | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2005-01-09 | Pull Date: | 2005-03-13 |
| Week Ending: | Jan 16 |
| Airplays: | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Sep 13, 2007: | The Girls Are At Your Local Dive! (with Joanna S) You Take Me You Break Me | 4. | Nov 09, 2006: | At Your Local Dive You Take Me You Break Me | |
| 2. | Aug 02, 2007: | At Your Local Dive In Time It Snows | 5. | Sep 12, 2006: | At Your Local Dive You Take Me You Break Me | |
| 3. | Feb 06, 2007: | At Your Local Dive You Take Me You Break Me | 6. | Feb 22, 2006: | I once was canadian Sun in My Eyes |
| Album Review |
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| Peter Porcino Reviewed 2005-02-06 | ||
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Nedelle and Thom – Summerland – Kill Rock Stars Really a showcase of Nedelle’s voice more than anything else. Fortunately she has a strong one and mixes up the pop with jazz with soul. The album still gets a bit monotonous by the end, though. Lyrics invariably deal with heartsickness of one form or another. 1,5,11 cover her spectrum and give a good range of strong songs. FCC: “shit” on 7 1. * (2:43) Jumps right in with strong, female vocals w/ very light supporting vocals. Upbeat, but lovesick. Slow section at 1:25 and end. 2. (2:35) Light song. Upbeat, fast drums do most of the work. Vocals at 2:16 – sadder, more pining. 12s fade. 3. (3:07) Starts w/ guitar and drums giving an early rock feel. Lapses into slower feel, no more rockin’. 4. (2:20) Upbeat song. Melancholy but hopeful lyrics. Short guitar intro. Pretty vocals w/ occasionally prevalent background singing. 5. * (3:00) Sadder, more emotive, soulful song. Starts w/ “la-la” vocals harmonies, main vocals soon thereafter. Female background singers. Shows wider vocal range. Fade at 8s, silence by 6. “You did me wrong” song 6. (2:40) Slow start, gets more upbeat – “Missing you/can’t go on” song 7. (2:15) FCC: shit Guitar intro with a funk sound. Duet vocal. Nedelle sings deeper – not the same melodic sound she gets on other tracks. Duet works at times, but sounds off at others. 8. * (2:02) Cool bass line and drums for intro. Interesting guitar work. Very solid vocals – pretty and emotive. Bittersweet – “love him but days went too fast” fade at 9s, silence by 6s. 9. (2:03) Pretty, slow, sad. Immediate vocals. Simple, straightforward instrumentation. “Gave what I could” to a man. Silence at 7s. 10. (3:35) More of a pop feel, upbeat. (Beatles’ “Getting Better at the beginning”). Song is longer than it has to be – gets repetitive. Lyrics seem clever and weak at the same time – end of the world love song (?) 11. (2:56) Slow acoustic duet. Guitar intro with (as the name suggests) a lullaby feel. Contains titular “summerland” lyric. “Born to die/going to a better place” sweet but sad love song. Silence relatively abruptly with 16s left – watch ending! | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | You Take Me You Break Me | 6. | Sun in My Eyes | |||
| 2. | Care for Me | 7. | Counting Shit | |||
| 3. | It's Up to You | 8. | In Time It Snows | |||
| 4. | Puddle at Your Toes | 9. | He Cursed Me | |||
| 5. | You Know | 10. | Cute Things | |||
| 11. | Lullaby | |||||