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ARTiST...: Shawn Lee
ALBUM....: Monkey Boy
LABEL....: We Love You
GENRE....: Electronic
RIP.DATE.: Feb-19-2007
RLS.DATE.: Oct-31-2000
#.TRACKS.: 11
SiZE.....: 107,1 MB
TiME.....: 46:41 min
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Review by Jim Smith
The cover art, an agitating hodgepodge
of crudely drawn musical instruments, is
a perfect approximation of Lee's style,
which blends organic blues, jazz, rock,
and soul with synthesized loops and
scratches to create music that
challenges the notions of contemporary
pop wizardry. Although others have tread
similar ground, Lee's music, like
Beck's, relies less on samples than
original music incorporating a multitude
of influences, and the album's strength
lies in the excellent first half,
especially "Hangin' By a Thread" and
"Happiness," which features swooping
strings over a bossa nova beat. The
beautiful "How Strong Is Your Soul"
proves Lee to be an uncommonly soulful
vocalist, but the record loses steam
midway through, as his intense fusions
begin to tax the ear too heavily. What
seems initially like confusion, though,
begins to reveal itself as something
deeper, and one is won over by Lee's
willingness to build a hut where most
people wouldn't dream of squatting.
-AMG
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TRACK TiTLE TiME
01 Kill Somebody 04:33
02 Hangin' By A Thread 04:57
03 Happiness 04:18
04 Floating 04:18
05 How Strong Is Your Soul 04:16
06 A&R Man Of Love 04:45
07 8 Million Ways To Die 03:28
08 Harmony In Falsetto 03:45
09 I Can't Save You 04:03
10 Don't Trust Men 04:10
11 Disappearance Of The Man 04:08
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