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The world of female singer/songwriters is a troubled one. And their deep thinking, emotionally wrought vocals and lyrical obsessions with human relations--all songstress' staples--are hardly the stuff of easy listening. Amanda Ghost is similarly humorously challenged. She cries forth with powerful gravelly vocals and with lines like the string-laden "Numb"'s "Lying on a bed of nails, build me up to watch me fail," lyrically at least, she's as much a match for her distressed predecessors Tori Amos and Alanis Morissette. But it's in the production stakes that Ghost Stories really comes good. Amanda doesn't sole
The world of female singer/songwriters is a troubled one. And their deep thinking, emotionally wrought vocals and lyrical obsessions with human relations--all songstress' staples--are hardly the stuff of easy listening. Amanda Ghost is similarly humorously challenged. She cries forth with powerful gravelly vocals and with lines like the string-laden "Numb"'s "Lying on a bed of nails, build me up to watch me fail," lyrically at least, she's as much a match for her distressed predecessors Tori Amos and Alanis Morissette. But it's in the production stakes that Ghost Stories really comes good. Amanda doesn't solely subscribe to the standard piano hammering, angry young woman antics. Sure, she sticks to tradition with the guitar belting "Idol", "Cellophane" and "Glory Girl". But she also mixes things up by complementing the snarly vocals of "Filthy Mind" with Underworld-esque rhythms of psychotic disco, and laments "The Wrong Man", "Empty" and "Blind Man" with the Massive Attack stylings of brooding urban beats and cold strings. Her melodies may be thin and her mentality far from unique, but the musical context points to there being a lot more to Amanda Ghost than just another depressed female singer/songwriter. --Dan Gennoe
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Manufacturer: Warner Bros UK
Release date: 12 September 2000
EAN: 0093624766322 UPC: 093624766322
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