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| Artist : Heikki |
| Album : 2 |
| Label : Magic Marker Records |
| Catalog # : MMR030 |
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| Source : CD |
| Genre : Indie |
| Language : English |
| Rip date : 2005-04-26 |
| Store date : 2005-00-00 |
| Rip tool : EAC |
| Encoder : LAME 3.90.3 --alt-preset standard |
| Quality : 194kbps avg VBR 44.1/Joint Stereo |
| Url : http://www.magicmarkerrecords.com |
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| 1. Former Hero 3:12 |
| 2. Election Day 3:09 |
| 3. Still You Don't Know Me 3:59 |
| 4. Give It Back To You 2:47 |
| 5. Lovely Hands 3:24 |
| 6. I Can't Stand (To See Someone Hurt) 4:16 |
| 7. Smiling Liar 2:45 |
| 8. I Need A Man 3:32 |
| 9. Don't Ask Me Why 3:12 |
| 10. Tonight 3:46 |
| 11. Nothing Lasts 5:20 |
| 12. Tender Is The Night (The Long Fidelity) 4:24 |
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| This is the US Edition of the album and includes two bonus tracks not |
| found on Heikki-Heikki_II-Advance-2004-BTB. This release is also in |
| vbr so enjoy! |
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| Like fellow recent Swedish exports Hives and Dungen, Maria Eriksson and |
| Jari Haapalainen draw inspiration from the ghosts of rock's past. With |
| the Concretes, Eriksson's guitar and Haapalainen's production helped |
| build tracks reminiscent of a coupling between the Velvet Underground |
| and the Ronettes. By the sound of Heikki, Ronnie Bennett musta been Lee |
| Hazlewood's baby on the side. |
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| Heikki's second full-length-- the first released in the U.S. by Magic |
| Marker-- adds the twang of Hazlewood's mid-60s productions and looser, |
| more improvisational arrangements to the Concretes' stylized indie pop. |
| Eriksson's vocals are more Neko Case than Nancy Sinatra, and sound only |
| a little like Concretes singer Victoria Bergman's winningly weak-nosed |
| Nico. Together with Haapalainen's primarily acoustic guitar and a |
| smattering of melodica, Heikki somehow end up sounding like a rougher |
| Aislers Set. |
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| Opener "Former Hero" hula-hoops through sticky Oklahoma summers as shown |
| in a Scandinavian cinema, cleverly adding extra beats beneath the word |
| "exaggerate" and sumptuous girl-group harmonies drawing apart over the |
| words "again and again and again and again." Stiff-lipped "Election Day" |
| kisses an old friend farewell, then "Still You Don't Know Me" |
| dramatically confronts a familiar stranger who, like Jimmy Stewart in |
| Vertigo, sees in the narrator only someone else he once knew. The best |
| song, "Give It Back to You", revels in close female harmonies as it |
| triumphantly rejects another unfeeling lover. |
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| Still, these songs often fall short of similarly inclined efforts by |
| groups like Camera Obscura. The lyrics often dwell too long in the realm |
| of pop clichΘ ("all this time you kept it all inside"), which works |
| better in the in-quotes music of The Concretes, where tracks like "You |
| Can't Hurry Love" are both referential and satisfyingly irreverent. |
| Covers of "Nothing Lasts" by overlooked 60s folkie Karen Beth and 80s |
| Australian folk-pop group The Triffids' "Tender Is the Night (The Long |
| Fidelity)" are somewhat draggy bonus tracks. The album isn't likely to |
| win many fans who aren't already predisposed toward retro indie pop, but |
| until the next Concretes outing, these boots will have to walk. |
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| -Marc Hogan, February 14, 2005 |
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