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The artists featured on this site all have had a number one single in the UK charts in the 21st century.Page 1 of 4 Number of products: 38
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Ocean Eyes publisher: Island ASIN: B002WUWG4Y sales rank: 334 price: £2.98 (new), £2.97 (used) |
Ocean Eyes follows hot on the heels of "Fireflies", a sparkling piece of emo-tinged electronic pop that made Adam Young, a bedroom musician from small-town Minnesota, a chart-topper on both sides of the Atlantic. Critics have noted the similarities of Owl City to past introspective electronica outfits such as Sub Pop signees The Postal Service, but Ocean Eyes is plainly a brighter, more populist spin on the sound, with colourful melodies, vocals tinted with autotune, and emotions writ large. Yes, it's sentimental stuff-–lyrically, the sort of literate-but-neurotic fare that sounds as informed by the dialogue of articulate indie flicks like 500 Days Of Summer than traditional pop songwriting. "I’ve been to the dentists' a thousand times so I know the drill" quips Young on "Dental Care", a song inevitably less about deep-canal work than matters of the heart. Those with harder hearts may find the overall effect a little saccharine, but it’s inescapable that Owl City has the ear for a tune that can really weevil its way into your memory-–hear how the likes of "Cave In" and "Hello Seattle" recall "Fireflies" in their blend of yearning emotion and crisp, sing-along hooks. --Louis Pattison |
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Maybe I'm Dreaming publisher: Island ASIN: B0036DE25W sales rank: 8846 price: £4.99 (new) |
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Of June publisher: Island ASIN: B0021BO41C sales rank: 13408 price: £2.92 (new), £5.98 (used) |
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Ocean Eyes publisher: Republic ASIN: B002ECN4NM sales rank: 43467 price: £7.63 (new), £4.40 (used) |
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Maybe I'm Dreaming publisher: Island ASIN: B0021BO412 sales rank: 68608 price: £5.23 (new) |
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Fireflies publisher: Import (Megaphon) ASIN: B0037B0UUO sales rank: 79816 price: £8.99 (new) |
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Of June EP publisher: Island ASIN: B0036DQ6UQ sales rank: 87073 price: £4.99 (new) |
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Ocean Eyes/Ltd.Deluxe Edi publisher: Motown ASIN: B003102J1O sales rank: 164958 price: £26.28 (used) |
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Ocean Eyes [VINYL] publisher: Republic ASIN: B002ECN4NW sales rank: 128299 price: £17.46 (new) |
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Give Up publisher: Sub Pop ASIN: B000089CJI sales rank: 1043 price: £5.24 (new), £4.48 (used) |
In every sense of the word Give Up, the debut album from American Electro beatniks the Postal Service is a remarkable record. Born of a chance meeting between Ben Gibbard, singer of Seattle indie-rockers Death Cab for Cutie and LA resident and Dntel lynch-pin Jimmy Tamborello, and written and recorded by post--hence the name the Postal Service--it's an inspired, if unlikely, marriage of lo-fi innocence and hi-tech beauty. Gibbard's voice is filled with the insecure questioning normally restricted to recently dumped singers in emo bands. Tamborello's clicks, bleeps, analogue murmurs and eerie scraps are the stuff of inaccessible bedroom electronica. Together though, they find a sensual middle ground where stories of jilted lovers and fragile desires softly prick the emotions on a tidal wave of otherworldly synthetic sounds. "The District Sleeps Alone", with its tripping beats, bittersweet computer strings and tragically uplifting hook is melancholy at its most tender. "Sleeping In" is a joyously sunny daydream; a naïve vision of how good the world could be. And everything else falls somewhere between the two--equal parts heartbreak and hope, to form a strange and wonderful dimension where electro-pop has a soul. --Dan Gennoe |