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There is most certainly a parallel universe in which Emilana Torrini is the Next Big Thing.
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Me and Armini emerges as an album suitable for bookworms and beach bunnies, homebodies and world travelers, dancers and wallflowers. Highly recommended.
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This feels more polished product and will no doubt have a broader appeal as a result, but it is a treasure of a thing and the more people that hear it the better.
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Accompanied by sultry electric guitar licks, reverb-y finger-snaps and breathy grunts, 'Gun' might be one of the sexiest bloodbaths on record--and the highlight of an album that's filled with them.
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UncutThis album subtly expands her metrical, folksy songcraft to the point where songs like 'Heard It All Before' and 'Fireheads' are just one spoonfed breakbeat from being charttoppers. [Oct 2008, p.113]
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Q MagazineMe and Armini isn't an immediate record--it's too opaque, too guarded for that--but as it gives up its secrets, it slowly moves its stuff into your mind, a strange cuckoo in the musical nest. [Oct 2008, p.151]
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MojoEmiliana is blessed in her musical collaborator Dan Carey, with whom she calibrates an acoustic-led chamber trip-hop with plenty of room for her voice to breathe. [Nov 2008, p.111]
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Torrini captures a few joyful infatuations followed by a lot of lingering wounds; she’s vulnerable but never conquered.
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It's more adventurous than the album prior–-and generally more successful in this eclecticism than her debut, certainly--yet that Torrini’s best work lies ahead of her seems indubitable.
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Me and Armini merely falls short of being as fully conceived as the astonoshing "Fisherman’s Woman."
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Torrini's much more engaging, though, when cooing Me and Armini's less flamboyant folk pop. [Nov 2008, p.102]
User score distribution:
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Positive: 11 out of 15
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Mixed: 1 out of 15
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Negative: 3 out of 15
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RichardD.Oct 24, 2008Better than the last album - its that is possible. Forget the mediocre reviews on Metacritic, this CD is bliss on silicone.
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JeffD.Sep 29, 2008Except for track #4, I completely love this CD.
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JeremySep 26, 2008