Ani Difranco - Revelling/Reckoning
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Free Music Notes for Revelling/Reckoning
Free Music Review: ani's incredible morphing
Hit: 5 Stars
I'm sorry. But with every new album she comes out with, she gets more and more better at it. Her albums are just getting better and better. When she's 80 years old, she will then make the most wonderful album she's ever made. That's how f--ing talented she is.She seems to be mastering her musical creativity capabilities. More power to her. I'm glad she's experimenting with new sounds, new timbres with new instruments. She's not a one-genre woman, and this album shows it. My favorite songs? Three of them, although it's quite hard to choose: "Tamburitza Lingua", "Rock Paper Scissors" and "Your Next Bold Move". All three of these songs in particular send chills down my spine. Other songs like "Reckoning", "Whatall is Nice", and "Grey" are slow and moving. And unforgettable melodies like "Ain't That The Way", "O.K.", and "Heartbreak Even" are fantastic to start bopping your head around to.
Way to go. I hope she keeps experimenting with new sounds and keeps "wow!"ing us with every new album.
Free Music Review: A more mature Ani
Hit: 5 Stars
Revelling / Reckoning is a much more musically and lyrically mature album than her previous discs. Myriad shades of tone, myriad gradients of lyric, and a more complex interaction of the two. R&R is one of Ani's most subtle works. She is realizing the most interesting politics and battles are the ones between your own head, heart, and soul and this album feels more personal than many of her previous. Not to say that her subject matter has ever not been personal, but this album FEELS more real, more human, and closer to the realness of her truth. On R & R, Ani has penned more thorough and complete songs than before and she delivers them with hints and slight gestures - a wink and a whisper, rather than a stomp and a scream.Ani often achieves excellence; in this collection she sometimes achieves sublime brilliance. A delight to listen to, Ani keeps getting better and I look forward to hearing her work when she gets up there in age. I imagine her prime has yet to come...
Free Music Review: Ani takes her sound to the next level... Again!
Hit: 5 Stars
Ani continues to find new ways of recapturing herself with Revelling/Reckoning. The double disc is an epic that needs to be heard many, many times to understand its full grasp. She can sound jazzy or funked out with tracks like "ain't that the way", "o.k.", and "heartbreak even", while going back to her solo roots on "garden of simple", "imagine that", and "old old song". She sticks to her guns on her politics in "subdivision" and "your next bold move". During spoken word "tamburitza lingua" Ani is sitting right next to you with her arm around your shoulder, she gets so close. And The instrumental "beautiful night", is a trip-jazz, mellow tune that just chills you out. The other instrumentals almost seem to go together into a puzzle that is so much like Ani herself. Ani really blew me away this time. This is the best since Dilate. Please, please, please listen, you won't regret!Free Music Review: A must for any fan
Hit: 5 Stars
Ani has always been true to herself and her music with each album she produces (evidence of this is that she still produces her own records on her own label). This double set is definitely no exception. It is full of insightful lyrics, odd experimental pieces, heartbreaking images and personal revelation. It is personal and political in a very different way from "To the Teeth", which I found a little too aggressive and angry. This album is more assured, no less adamant, but a bit more civil. Some may say it lacks passion, but what it may be missing in raw energy, it makes up for in honesty and intelligence. Throw both discs in the player, kick back with the lyrics in hand and just enjoy the work of an artist. In the current climate of Britney's and Destiny's Child, it is a rare treasure to listen to a woman with a mind, heart, and more talent in one track than any of the pop girls can put together in a set of albums.Free Music Review: Ani's White Album
Hit: 5 Stars
Ani's new double disc shows growth and maturity, and boundless experimentation, while remaining true to her roots. On the first disc, Revelling, she charts through funk, hip-hop, electronica, and rock, extending the intense experimentation that have been the hallmarks of her recent work. Standouts include "OK" and "Rock Paper Sissors." The second CD will probably appeal even more to her long-time fans, full of plaintive acoustic songs that lament the state of the world ("Your Next Bold Move") or angst-driven relationships. Put the two discs on a carrousel CD player and emerse yourself in Ani for two hours... Sure there are a few tunes that could have been excised, but you could say the same for the Beatles' "White Album" or Dylan's "Blonde on Blonde." Revelling/Reckoning shows what Ani's friends and fans have known for years: this is a true, independent, unadulterated talent. Enjoy!