A Fine Frenzy
One Cell in the Sea
2007, EMI
piano pop
½
Piano-pop and myself have a love-hate relationship that I have yet to figure out, but was definitely brought up while I listened to A Fine Frenzy’s (aka Alison Sudol’s) debut One Cell in the Sea. The piano sounds great and even Sudol herself sounds great, at least when she’s not attempting to sing at a lower register as in “Rangers,” but I can’t seem to really like this album as much as I should. It could be because Sudol sounds like a little girl playing at being an adult much of the time, or maybe it’s because of over-production and the ever-dreaded Coldplay influences that are rampant. This album is too much of a debut for me to listen to it seriously; the only song I can stand to listen to again “Almost Lover,” and that’s because the beginning chords are lifted from the famous “Part-Time Lover.”
“Almost Lover,” “Last of Days,” “Borrowed Time.”
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Sara Bareilles’s Little Voice, Stephanie Dosen’s A Lily for the Spectre
Tags: a fine frenzy, a lily for the spectre, little voice, one cell in the sea, sara bareilles, stephanie dosen
