Andrew Emil Presents Four Play Music has the makings of a spectacular electronica dance record if it only had lyrics and not just ceaseless reoccurrences of certain notes...
The first track has inklings of the Brian Setzer Orchestra with its jumpin' pitches. Each song is very dull as the album moves forward and the prosaic surges grow tiresome. Andrew Emil attempts to recapture the smoothness of 90s psychedelic band Deee-Lite sadly without much success. There is much drum play on this album accompanied by a plethora of blaring computerized squawks. If Emil had included more vocals on the album the staleness of the album could have avoided. Track two does sails along as it plays with an enormous amount of swishes. The third track brings in a female vocalist who keeps rehashing the phrase, "You've got me feeling" ad nauseum. Feeling what?
What exactly the vocalist is sensing is never told which could make listeners angry and stop the album entirely. The fifth track incorporates what sounds like an ambulance siren and is totally misplaced in the song. The sixth and seventh tracks could me music in the latest Playstation 2 video game, the former for when a player loses a life and the latter when the player wins the game. Andrew Emil Presents Four Play Music might be good to dance to at the local electronica club but to take in everyday would be deafening.
Sari N. Kent
Andrew Emil Presents Four Play Music
Andrew Emil Presents Four Play Music has the makings of a spectacular electronica dance record if it only had lyrics and not just ceaseless reoccurrences of certain notes...
The first track has inklings of the Brian Setzer Orchestra with its jumpin' pitches. Each song is very dull as the album moves forward and the prosaic surges grow tiresome. Andrew Emil attempts to recapture the smoothness of 90s psychedelic band Deee-Lite sadly without much success. There is much drum play on this album accompanied by a plethora of blaring computerized squawks. If Emil had included more vocals on the album the staleness of the album could have avoided. Track two does sails along as it plays with an enormous amount of swishes. The third track brings in a female vocalist who keeps rehashing the phrase, "You've got me feeling" ad nauseum. Feeling what?
What exactly the vocalist is sensing is never told which could make listeners angry and stop the album entirely. The fifth track incorporates what sounds like an ambulance siren and is totally misplaced in the song. The sixth and seventh tracks could me music in the latest Playstation 2 video game, the former for when a player loses a life and the latter when the player wins the game. Andrew Emil Presents Four Play Music might be good to dance to at the local electronica club but to take in everyday would be deafening.
