I Megaphone (Reis)

Imogen Heap - I Megaphone (Reis)

I Megaphone (Reis)
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Artist: Imogen Heap
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued
CD Release Date: 2006-11-14
Music Label: Almo Sounds
Soundtracks:
  1. Getting Scared
  2. Sweet Religion
  3. Oh Me, Oh My
  4. Shine
  5. Whatever
  6. Angry Angel
  7. Candlelight
  8. Rake It In
  9. Come Here Boy
  10. Useless
  11. Sleep

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Free Music Review: Still Immi's finest album
Hit: 5 Stars

When this CD originally came out, it barely made a splash. And yet I was so knocked out by it that I ended up buying a lot of copies and giving them to people, including to some studio engineers I knew, all of whom were equally excited by it.

In this, her solo debut, an Imogen just out of performing-arts-high-school filled an album with raw energy, dark, dramatic, low-register vocals, fierce piano playing, great songwriting, and several different producers for different tracks, creating a real feast for the ears. Just put on some headphones and listen to something like "Rake It In" or "Sweet Religion" to hear the kind of production that will delight the most discriminating of listeners and keep you fascinated, listen after listen.

This is still one of my favorite albums of the past 10 or 15 years. And while I've liked most of what she's done since, there's no denying that I far prefer the darker, edgier, piano-driven Immi to the trippier, synthier, lighter-singing-in-higher-registers Immi that has predominated from Frou Frou on (although the darker, more pianistic version of Immi still emerges at times, such as in the recent "Speeding Cars" single).

I know many people will probably disagree, but I think this is still Imogen's finest album, by far, with the newer solo album SPEAK FOR YOURSELF in second place and FrouFrou a distant third. I suspect that some of her best work is still ahead of her, because she is still quite young and obviously an mega-creative artist and a curious, never complacent person. But for now I MEGAPHONE is still her most sophisticated album in terms of variety of approach, sophistication of production style and texture, and overall energy. It is an album brimming over with talent and top-notch performance, infectiously dramatic, ambitious in scope, and the document of a hugely talented young woman proving herself.

I have great affection and respect for the Imogen of today, but there's something about this first album which is rare, fierce and valuable. If you are a fan of Immi's at all, you really owe it to yourself to have this CD, not just because this is how her whole career began, but because in certain ways this is the strongest, most audacious project she has done to date.


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Charismatic and compelling singer-songwriter Imogen Heap--recently nominated for two Grammy awards--has gained the ear of America in recent years with her electro/alt songs on cult-fave movies and television shows as well as her 2005 sophomore album Speak for Yourself. Yet i Megaphone, her 1998 debut, has been out of print in the U.S. for seven years. Now, that album has received a much-deserved reissue. i Megaphone revisits the songs that marked Heap as the next great iconoclastic female artist, a lineage that includes Patti Smith, Kate Bush, Annie Lennox, Bjork, and Liz Phair. After her live debut performing between sets by the Who and Eric Clapton at the 1996 Prince's Trust Concert in London's Hyde Park, the classically trained Heap, from rural Essex, England, signed to Almo Sounds when she was just 17 years old. i Megaphone (an anagram for "Imogen Heap"), produced by David Kahne, Dave Stewart (of the Eurythmics), and Guy Sigsworth, and featuring the engaging singles "Come Here Boy," "Shine," and "Getting Scared," earned wide critical acclaim. Unfortunately, Almo Sounds, formed by A&M founders Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss, was winding down and Heap soon found herself adrift. In 2002, she and Sigsworth released a duo album, Details, under the moniker Frou Frou and it too was critically acclaimed. The following year they covered the Bonnie Tyler classic "Holding Out for a Hero" for the Shrek 2 soundtrack. Though by then defunct, Frou Frou enjoyed an unexpected resurgence in popularity in 2004 when "Let Go" was featured in Garden State. Heap's second solo album, Speak for Yourself, emerged the following year. Its "Hide and Seek" was heard in the powerful closing scenes of the Season Two finale of The O.C. and sparked a frenzy. The series' third season ended with her haunting rendition of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah." "Hide and Seek" was also featured in the movie The Last Kiss, the reality series So You Think You Can Dance, and as the ending song in the premiere episode of this year's new drama Smith. In addition, she penned "Can't Take It In" for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. But it is because of i Megaphone that America first heard Imogen Heap.

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