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- Record Label: Smalltown Supersound
- Release Date: Jan 19, 2010
- Summary: Norway's Lindstrom and singer Christabelle join up to release their first album of disco-influenced music together.
- Record Label: Smalltown Supersound
- Genre(s): Electronic
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| Lovesick | |
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| Do u gonna be there? Are u sure u gonna call back? When I'm calling up and all that? Did u know that I'm sick? Did u think I would quit? Did u think... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Positive: 19 out of 22
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The Norwegian maestro of disco, Hans-Peter Lindstrøm, teams up again with Christabelle (also known as Solale), and together they craft a masterful 10-song pop album.
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The result is an album that squeezes a lot of air and atmosphere into songs that take no more time to make their point than Nu Shooz’ “I Can’t Wait.”
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Just about all of the new tracks would make fine A-sides, though they all fall into place as part of a flowing album.
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Real Life Is No Cool is a creamy, luscious sequence of classically structured pop-funk tracks glittering with Lindstrøm's trademark brand of space dust. Formally, the work here is light years away from the proggier, more sprawling galaxies he's recently navigated; Christabelle's languid yet charismatic, definitive yet hazy vocals are given properly emphatic productions.
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The result potently distils what makes him a great producer--as demonstrated by "Music in My Mind" and "So Much Fun," his take on 1980s funk-pop is exhilaratingly woozy, psychedelic and strange, never sliding into retro pastiche.
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The Moroder-indebted tunes on Real Life are more pop-friendly, but the chopped-up vocal samples on opener "Looking for What" are guaranteed to meld minds, while airy centerpiece "Keep It Up" defies gravity via handclaps and delicately chiming bells.
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Under The RadarReal Life Is No Cool plays more like a tug-of-war as singer and producer struggle to find harmony between two disparate sounds. [Holiday 2009, p.81]
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