Before the first song was over I checked to see how long the album was. 53 minutes... ugh...
I can tell already what's going to sink this ship for me: The useless singer.
Lady, you're no Jane Birkin, Francoise Hardy, Donna Summers, whatever-the-ladies-in-Abba-are-called. Her voice is limp and has no body to it. Her careful approach could work if she was expressive, sexy or anything else, but she's just weak and vaguely out of tune. Sometimes she even finds a way to make some incredibly annoying sounds with her mouth ( after the 12:40 mark of the album). I don't know why so many bands get singers that can't sing. I'm just picky that way.
In any case, this genre needs a good singer. You can't just moan and pose your way through a disco record.
The music is mostly lame and cheesy. Sometimes it surprisingly starts sounding a bit fuller and nicer, but this really isn't anything to write home about.
Everything after this point is written after the album is over:
Well into the album, something really unexpected starts happening. Things go quiet. There's some piano in the background. Some sound effect. It's mostly just some mild atmosphere building. Then some tinny, fake sounding jazz rounds things off and ends with a DJ talking and another bite sized piece of music. Not rally a point to any of it, but it did mean the album was a good 20 minutes shorter than expected, so I'm not complaining.
I don't listen to disco, but I can't imagine this is anywhere near the best the genre can do. Very, very weak music in my irrelevant opinion.
2/10. Profoundly unimpressive.
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