Thursday, June 22, 2006

Today after accounting lessons finished & me staying back in campus to do my accounting homework , I made my way to HMV to buy my copy of Electrico's Hip City & guess what ? I was the 2nd person in line to grab a copy in which it arrived at 4.45pm !

The stock arrived at 4.15pm actually so I had to wait for a while before laying my hands on it & before I go on , my friends & I who're fans of their music , already heard 9 outta 12 tracks on their CD via their MySpace account so pretty much or less expected how good their sophomore album's & I couldn't be more wrong !

The album sleeve of this & their debut album were designed by Slantboy & I prefer this album cover of Hip City , it's much much more cooler & sleeker.

& guess what I saw on the Thank You list inside the sleeve ? They put my name on it among others ! I was shocked yet flattered . They really shouldn't have done that but still I appericate it thanks guys !

Hip City's definitely more hip & edgier than their debut album . They kicked off the album with the cheekily titled Electricorp. (originally called Money Don't Matter) & subsequent tracks like Walk , Teenage Queen ,Only Where I'm Going are great rocking tracks & also the same thing goes for their 1st single Love In New Wave.

The title track's also brillant too , makes me appericate S'pore more seeing that they deemed it Hip City ! & another reason to grab a copy of Hip City's an amazing duet they did with 1 of biggest rock band from The Philippines aka Rivermaya titled All The World (originally called Dream World) & that song apperantly made Maggie broke down in tears when she listened to it on their MySpace account.

& I have to say that Rivermaya is freaking awesome when they performed live when I went to catch their very 1st showcase last Oct at Bar None in which they performed with Electrico . Their performance was superb beyond words !

Hello reminds me in the same vein as I See The Light but even better . I'm just pondering as to how come the song's in as they contributed that song which was deemed an 'unreleased' track to the For Good compliation ? hmmm.. but I don't really bother so much about it as I love Hello . Fever Fly's gorgeous as well , love the melodies to it.

I know I mentioned before that I didn't really like Stay Away but now I LOVE IT . I don't know why but I think Stay Away sounds better on the CD than on the website haha

There were no stinkers on the album only grouse/s I wanna rise's that I thought We're Not Made In The USA should have more bite in that it sounded a bit too tame as compared to the live version which was really rockin & Dave wrote the word 'bitch' in the lyrics HAHA , go him & I find Little Girl a bit of a bore probably cos I don't really like moody music/songs.Just like in their previous album , I don't like Feed The Cats as it's a strange & weird song.

Then again I might be wrong , probably I will give Little Girl a few more spins & I can definitely tell you my personal fave on the album aka TEENAGE QUEEN !

Still on whole , BRILLANT that's all I can say & as of now , I can say that it's a definite MUST buy album of 2006 ! & what sophomore slump ? They definitely don't suffer that syndrome that's for sure !

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Name :: Hui Min / Karen

B'Day :: 10.1.1987

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Been Blogging Since :: 7th Feb '05

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