Monday, June 09 2008
SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT (UK)
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Neptune City (CD album)
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09/06/2008
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The amazing Nicole Atkins has landed! Today she releases her astonishing debut album Neptune City. The record calls to mind Roy Orbison if he were a woman; the bleak visions of Nick Cave and Leonard Cohen; the darkly mysterious girl group-on-acid musings of Julee Cruise and Lynch composer Angelo Badalamenti; the sorrow of Patsy Cline, the '60s experimentation of Love and Nuggets; all with a redeeming sense of hope amidst the emotional wreckage that is all Nicole. A sense that's perfectly captured on "Cool Enough," on which she sings, "I don't care where you're going/You're taking me with you/This place got nothing that I could want/But I think that someday, I might feel different/But still, that's someday/Still that's someday/So take me with you."
And it's that sound that washes over Neptune City, produced by Tore Johansson (Cardigans, Franz Ferdinand, OK Go, Saint Etienne, New Order), an album that sounds like it came from anywhere but the New Jersey Americana rock tradition made famous by Bruce Springsteen. Her music ranges far afield: at some times vaudevillian, at others psychedelic, a little bit country, a dash from early musicals, all under a cloud of pop-noir, often all coming in the very same song. Atkins writes songs that could have come from an episode of Six Feet Under, or an updating of Grease, as directed by David Lynch.
Order you copy now, below. Not only that, you can also check out a cool podcast about Nicole and also buy the arty and fun video to the first single Maybe Tonight - both from i Tunes. get your albums here:
Tracklisting :
1. Maybe Tonight
2. Together we're both alone
3. The way it is
4. Cool enough
5. War torn
6. Love surreal
7. Neptune city
8. Brooklyn's on fire!
9. Kill the headlights
10. Party's over
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