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fave it New Wave | 80's Rock
11 tracks | 44 minutes
Released May 2005
on Arlene Hattori
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:34 I Want To Know lyrics BUY MP3 04:34 I Want To Know lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:34 I Want To Know
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:50 Give It Up lyrics BUY MP3 03:50 Give It Up lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:50 Give It Up
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:24 When I Looked Into Your Eyes lyrics BUY MP3 04:24 When I Looked Into Your Eyes lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:24 When I Looked Into Your Eyes
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:51 When I Looked Into Your Eyes, REMIX lyrics BUY MP3 03:51 When I Looked Into Your Eyes, REMIX lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:51 When I Looked Into Your Eyes, REMIX
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:31 When The Nighttime Comes lyrics BUY MP3 04:31 When The Nighttime Comes lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:31 When The Nighttime Comes
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:21 Thank You For Being My Friend lyrics BUY MP3 03:21 Thank You For Being My Friend lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:21 Thank You For Being My Friend
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:18 Right Thing lyrics BUY MP3 04:18 Right Thing lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:18 Right Thing
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:25 Frustrated Maryann lyrics BUY MP3 04:25 Frustrated Maryann lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:25 Frustrated Maryann
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:47 What Matters Now lyrics BUY MP3 03:47 What Matters Now lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:47 What Matters Now
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:35 You Say lyrics BUY MP3 03:35 You Say lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:35 You Say
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:05 Something So Sweet lyrics BUY MP3 04:05 Something So Sweet lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:05 Something So Sweet
9 out of 10 stars. The stars say it all: Arlene Hattori's "Finding Myself Again" is one of the year's best albums as well as most promising debuts.
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9 out of 10 stars
The stars say it all: Arlene Hattori's "Finding Myself Again" is one of the year's best albums as well as most promising debuts. You can include Hattori with the current New Wave revival, but don't expect the usual Gang of Four or Cure post-punk riffs that has been the dominating retread lately. Instead, Hattori conjures flashbacks of the jangly (the Smiths, Aztec Camera) and soul-tinged (the Style Council, Everything But the Girl) side of New Wave, which makes her album a bolt of cold air on a humid summer afternoon. Hattori's voice is totally '80s -- raspy in the Stevie Nicks sense yet bittersweet a la the late Kirsty MacColl.
What separates Hattori from the pack of young wolves on an '80s notalgia rampage is that she sounds like she's from the decade instead of merely reviving it. A quick scan of her online biography proved that right as she has been in the music scene since the dawn of New Wave in the early '80s.
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The sunny, ringing guitars of "I Want to Know" brought back memories of college days, obsessing over Everything But the Girl's "Love Not Money" LP. I thought they didn't make music like this any longer. But, wait, there's more! "Give It Up" has a funky mid-'80s vibe that would've made a club favorite, especially with its icy synthesizers and AOR guitar solos. Just to make the '80s roots even more obvious, Hattori includes a dance remix of "When I Looked Into Your Eyes" that could've been released in 1987. "Frustrated Maryann" is what the Smiths would've been like if they had a Japanese woman on vocals.
Visit http://www.cdbaby/hattori immediately and buy this CD above all else if you're missing the '80s.
Adam Harrington
www.whisperinandhollerin.co.uk/reviews/review.asp?id=2544
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