Katharine Whalen - Dirty Little Secret
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Artist: Katharine WhalenEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-06-06
Music Label: M.C. Records
Soundtracks:
- The Funnest Game
- Dirty Little Secret
- You- Who
- Follow
- Meet Me By The Fire
- The Garden
- Angel
- Want You Back
- Long
- In The Night
- Three Blind Mice
- Blur
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Free Music Review: Addictive, truly unique listening experience
Hit: 5 Stars
On this haunting, moving solo album from Raleigh, NC singer Katharine (and former member of Squirrel Nut Zippers) laces the songs with a sultry, strong honesty. With lurid, evocative arrangements and varied sounds that combine with vocals ranging from guttural to ethereal to yearning, Dirty Little Secretis a superb album. "The Funnest Game" boasts Big Band groove with Whalen's confident yet bitter-sweet voice of experience-"I wasn't always like this/ I used to be happy just like you/ I had a sweetheart/ We were never apart/ I thought that love was true."
On the sweet, slower title track, she sings from her heart, which can be heartbreaking at times. The more cheerful, pop-laced "The Garden" features old-style harmonizing and soothing vocal stylings. On "Want You Back," calypso horns solidify the aching feel on this catchy track-"I don't know and I don't care/ I still see you everywhere/ So go away and don't come back/ But don't believe me because I still want you back."
Katharine's stunning voice layered with electronica and jazz backgrounds makes Dirty Little Secretan unforgettable, addictive, truly unique listening experience from an immensely talented artist.
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After fronting the Squirrel Nut Zippers in the nineties, Katherine Whalen took a turn exploring other genre specific music. With a jazz band, Katherine Whalen's Jazz Squad, she cast herself as a torchy chanteuse, garnering praise, but not a clear sense of her own direction. Now, after a seven year hiatus, she's come back having found her own contemporary voice. From the feverish rhythms of "The Funnest Game" to the majestic Brian Wilson-like title track, the set moves with ease between contrasting settings and styles. And far from making this a disjointed whole, it's Whalen's singing and the sympathetic arrangements by producer David Sale (who also played all of the instruments) that tie the whole thing together. The disc's variety is one of its strengths. Her voice can is as adept fronting a funky number like "You-Who" as it is on the dreamscape lullaby "Blur." --David GreenbergerKatharine Whalen, former front-person in the roaring nineties swing band Squirrel Nut Zippers, is planning her return to music following a short hiatus with her first solo album in seven years, "Dirty Little Secret" released on June 6, 2006
Download.com describes the new album thusly: "A luscious array of jazz crooning over trip-hop beats and cabaret sensuality, Katharine Whalen drafts the script for a futuristic burlesque show that never stops. Dizzying and dazzling, Whalen dreams up masterpieces of exotica for decadent nightclubs with her eccentric and seductive charm. Picture the Squirrel Nut Zippers crossed with Portishead, then grab a martini for this m?lange of the neurotic and erotic."
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