A3 - Power in the Blood
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Artist: A3Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2003-08-12
Music Label: One Little Indian Us
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Two Heads
- Power In The Blood
- Reachin'
- Woody Guthrie
- Year Zero
- R.EH.A.B.
- Strobe Life
- R.EH.A.B.
- The Moon Has Lost The Sun
- Let The Caged Bird Sing
- Yellow Rose
- Bullet Proof
- Badlands
- Lord Have Mercy
- Come On Home
- Woke Up This Morning
- Power In The Blood
- Disneyland Is Burning
- U Don't Dans 2 Tekno Anymore
- Year Zero
- Mansion On The Hill
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Free Music Review: Blood Type: A+
Hit: 5 Stars
A3 has done it again. Their first album, "Exile on Coldharbour Lane," was a western-gospel inspired acid house party album, a blossoming transufsion of sparkling wit and musical genius. Their second album, "La Peste," was a darker, earthier treatise on pain, regret, and hope. "Power in the Blood," their third album, mixes the country harmonics and electro-house frequencies of the one with the crooning prison-cell flavor of the other, making for a product that is soulfully liquid but buzzing with dance-floor energy.
As always, the lyrics are rather political (in some cases, their message is almost too weighty to take -- see "Lord Have Mercy"), but this rarely gets in the way of their remarkably unique sound. As before, they slide between beautiful extremes, offering up uncut house with "Strobe Life" and acoustic spiritualism with "Let The Caged Bird Sing." There is the wickedly funny ("Yellow Rose"), the playfully ironic ("R.E.H.A.B."), the incriminating ("Woody Guthrie"), and the delightfully dark ("Power In The Blood").
The blend is wickedly sharp as usual. Their mix of soothing prarie psalms with the sneering static of hard house is something I never get tired of, a combo that lights a fire behind and beneath each of the songs. A3 is still belting out the beats, and they're still doing it in a way you have very likely never heard of before.
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With Power in the Blood, A3 may have finally gotten everything right. Their first album, as good as it was, came across as a bit of a novelty record (maybe the world just wasn't quite ready for a mix of country and techno music?). Their second album, La Peste, upped the production stakes a bit too much, to the sacrifice of their country soul. So it's reassuring that Power in the Blood takes the best bits of both previous releases, resulting in their best album yet. It's still as slickly produced as the best dance music (they are, after all, labelmates with Bjork), but they manage to infuse their electronics with genuine heart and soul--they may be the first dance act that would sound just as good unplugged. Best of all, they manage to combine guitars and drum machines with catchy anti-establishment songs while never fully lapsing into the dubious realm of Chumbawamba, which is why it's perfectly acceptable to dance along to the banjos and fiddle on standout track "Woody Guthrie", even if it does boast a chorus that says "Don't need no country / Don't fly no flag / Cut no slack for the Union Jack / Stars and Stripes have got me jetlagged". Granted, Power in the Blood is not a perfect album--it's too long and the lyrics get a bit preachy and heavy handed--but it is a good one. The lyric "Mommas don't let your babies grow up to be DJs" (on the superbly-titled "The Devil Went Down to Ibiza") is alone worth the price of admission. --Robert BurrowAlternative Rock Music CDs
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