Details

Frou Frou's album "Details" will leave you dreaming. The best feature is definitely the airy, crisp voice of Imogen Heap. The entire album has a dreamlike quality that takes you to a plane of heightened reality.

There is one problem with the album though. Though mellow and pleasing, the music lacks depth and complexity of sound. It's too simple.

At least it's variant though. There is no apparent underlying theme to the album. Each song is a story in itself. "Must Be Dreaming" rejoices in the novelty of a newly discovered love, while "The Dumbing Down Of Love" languishes about a love on its way out the door.

There is a stark contrast between the good and the bad on the album. A few of the tracks fall into the ever-visited category artists dread most; boring. "Old Piano" is almost painstakingly redundant and slow. But then "Flicks" leaves the audience reveling in the joy.

The song that made the album famous, "Let Go" is the epitome of a dream inspiring sound. The light melodic beats overlap to center the listener in a delightful trance. If found in the soundtrack of your life, it is the song that would play while floating over the ocean on the clearest, warmest, most beautiful of days (if such a blissful action were possible for the cumbersome human form). If you have every experienced a perfect day, this song will bring you back there.

So despite its simplicity, the album does exactly what it sets out to do. Imogen Heap once described it perfectly as "music can be like perfume, it's almost a scent, you know, where the right smell changes an environment and makes life more bearable."
The band consists of just two members, Imogen Heap and Guy Sigsworth. Since the album's release, both are now working on their own individual projects.