An eleborate title I hear you think, well, let me explain it.
I have chosen this title and it’s fault is a new album from a female Dutch(hey, it ain’t much if it ain’t dutch 😉 ) singer under the name of Caro Emerald.
Her sound is described as ‘a mix of 1950’s inspired ballroom jazz, cinematic tangoes, groovin’ jazz tracks, infectious mambo’s and banging beats’ and I must say, they are really spot on.
I’m listening to it as we speak, and I must confess that to the tunes of ‘That Man’ and ‘Just One Dance’ I couldn’t help but moving and snapping my fingers to the catchy beat.
And then you go to some nice relaxing tunes of ‘Riviera Life’ and swing slowly back into the catchiness with ‘Back It Up’.
The last one also happened to be her first single out here in the low lands, sometime last summer, to which I met her sound… and I loved it, but as always, lazy old me forgot whom she was(never caught her name on the radio on the work, always something coming up between it) and as the single got played less and less I slowly forgot about her, but enjoyed it when the track boomed through the ether.
and then, this year, her second song was released. And following closely was her album ‘Deleted Scenes From The Cutting Room Floor’, which I ordered, the first real(as in touchable, not digital) album for me in YEARS. though it will be gathering dust on my shelf as my harddrive is getting to play the songs to dust I still feel it’s worth it. I just came to song number 5 and only for the first four songs I’d buy it, and her current hitsingle has still to come… it’s just that good.
I don’t know if the album is available outside the nethies, but for your sake I really hope it is, you’ll be craving for it when you hear the selected songs below(and belive me when I say i had a hard time picking the best songs out of it *cough-also-I-picked-it-for-the-title-cough*)
as for the music, I now have moved on to number 6, ‘Absolutely Me’, leaving behind ‘The Other Women’. ‘Absolutely Me’ so far is the most ‘heavy’ mixed song on the album. It’s followed by a very classic(save for the beat) sounding ‘You Don’t Love Me’
I am also very biased to pick this song as the best on the album, but that’s mostly because it sports heavy trumpet use… about my absolute music weakness. Yeah that’s right, I like _almost_ every song with a trumpet in it (a real one, not those fake digital ones 🙁 ) it is my Achilles’ Heel I say!
And Oh eM Gee! ‘Dr. Wanna Do’ is awesome sounding with more trumpets and a louis Armstrong voice in it shouting doo-ba-doo! just love it 😀 I just picked my 4th song to show to you! by the way, for those who didn’t notice it: I am typing this as I hear the full album for the first time so I might sound somewhat incoherent, it’s the music!
and the Doctor is followed by a very up beat ‘Stuck’ which, as most songs on the album, is making me rock my chair while only stopping me this close from singing along out loud(what’s stopping me is the fact I don’t know the text, but that’ll be fixed in a few days 😀 )
After the happy ‘Stuck’ is a more gravely/French sounding ‘I Know That He’s Mine’… well, not really gravely and not really french either 😛 it has just one of those accordions and it’s really slow compared to ‘Stuck’, then again, everything on the album is rather slow compared to that. but what I mean is that it’s a more serious sounding song, both in the text and the music. Nonetheless it is still a song that feels right in place on the album, a nice change of the pace so to say.
What follows this song is her current hit, which I carefully, but not on purpose(or did I?), avoided to name so far. it is called ‘On a Night Like This’ and it just makes me want to dance to it… that or get a girl to dance cheek to cheek, this one is also sported below.
and unfortunately, the last song on the album (seriously, put more of this epicness on the next one!), ‘The Lipstick On His Collar’ is sounding somewhat serious and cool, not as serious as ‘I Know He’s Mine’, but more along the way of the other song I really love(it was the one popping up a few seconds after the first tunes), Tom Jones – Sex Bomb. I just place her right up there with this song.
to conclude something that doesn’t need/want (strike through which is not applicable) a conclusion; this album is made of Pure Epicness with a good spoon of Awesomeness and coated with Pure Gold.
Should Caro or one of her staff ever stumble across this blog and read through all of my rambling to this very line, I’d like to say: Go worldwide and kick some butt! You really rock with this album! WOOH!
and now for the forementioned songs I promised you lot:
First off; ‘That Man’
followed by ‘Backing It Up’
And here you go for ‘On A Night Like This’
and lastly closed by ‘You Don’t Love Me’
oh alright, and a teaser in the form of Tom Jones – Sex Bomb:
Tha-tha-that’s All Folks!