Nicki Minaj in the body of Lana Turner... Lana Del ReyHometown: Lake Placid.
Range: Lizzy Grant (vocals).
Background: We love Lizzy Grant, aka Lana Del Rey, we really do. A lot. But it makes us nervous. Mainly because the phrases that it uses to describe what it is that it is and how it wants to appear, are better than we could manage. It's great when a new law comes with a vision and a fully realized aesthetic, but please leave us with a work to be done. For example, it is the "Nancy Sinatra gangsta" which means that his music "sonic equivalent to a film by Vincent Gallo." It is very neat and seem more still once you hear his music, which is not so fuse as a choice between the 50 schizoid sensual ballads ooze glamour ruin, which is replete with what she calls "strings Frank Sinatra" pop and modern inflected hip hop hip-hop with advice from the high school drama : think Lil Kim if it was produced by Kim Fowley.
We have sent almost 19 tracks by his "people", all the demos with various producers to the bar, and they are divided intriguing as indicated above, with the 24-year-old New Yorker, and sometimes singing London resident is high and girly on songs as a sort of pop Lolita to present his, or low and husky (she is a former jazz singer) on material which suggests an adult woman who has been through the mill and has emerged from the other side, wearier and wiser, with stories to tell. Our immediate response to these diametrically opposed approaches: play their place and do a concept, double-sided as a vinyl version album or a 12-tracker split evenly and that it includes six pop songs, exuberant, uncompromising as the Paris wrote Guy Chambers, that is, young pitched but playful ("you are such a naughty boy, why you taking that Polaroid?") and six things like the Million Dollar Man, which is more Brenda Lee that Britney more slow and painful.
Then, the drive in cars and hundreds of ticket, it offers a third way: the good girl of Laura Palmer with one side dark, with a foot simultaneously in Twin Peaks and the other in Tinseltown. On the former, in the Spectoresque farm, she shoo shoos as a Shirelle on how all boys were "all had girlfriends but I am the one they want" while on the latter point, it is "the trailer park darling" who likes "tough and mean". The melodies are catchy and beats also hang. And references to liquor abound.
If we were in charge - and with our own series of concerts on the road, without a doubt is that a question of time - would opt us for the route concept. How awesome: an album following the passage of a young girl from adolescence to adulthood, a Pet Sounds for the generation of Katy Perry. Grant has already taken the opening and closing tracks: on Puppy Love it chirrups on the pre-rock era of Jackie O and Dick Van Dyke Show with joy dizzy, ditzy, while on Carmen she sounds almost as weathered and worn as Marianne Faithfull on Broken English. We can't wait to hear this album - in fact, in our free time between the discovery of new bands and put on performances, we D & R if you wish.
Buzz: "Pop dark cinematic wrapped in smoky, sensual and glamorous connotations" - thedailytransmission.com.
The truth: Nicki Minaj is in the body of Lana Turner.
Probably to: The idea of the concept of Park.
The least likely of: The next year into a sandtrap with Van Dyke Parks.
What to buy: Nothing is yet - but, seeing as how we will monitor it, you will be the first to know when the album was released.
next to the file: Sky Ferreira, Britney, Julie London, Julee Cruise.
Links: facebook.com/lanadelrey
New band Monday: Airbird.
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