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Brazilian Girls - New York City
| Billboard | | On "New York City," Brazilian Girls have crafted a set as internationally diverse as the Big Apple itself. Per usual, multilingual frontwoman Sabina Sciubba demands the spotlight, flaunting her pronunciations in French, Spanish, German and every other tongue she speaks. Attempting to pack so many styles into one sitting doesn't necessarily make for a cohesive set. The organic oompah of "Berlin" and the gorgeous "L'Interprete" are interesting, but frazzle the fun-loving, beat-heavy spirit of the remaining songs. Opener "St. Petersburg" is irresistible ("Do you like my accent?" Sciubba queries), and "Good Time" is as playful as its name indicates, with inside and self-referential jokes and an underbelly of silly synths....full text |
| | Nytimes | | Jamey Johnson thanked his ex-wife when he shared the Country Music Association’s Song of the Year award for writing a George Strait hit, “Give It Away.” He can also thank her for his own “That Lonesome Song” (Lost Highway), an album built around post-divorce songs that revel in the morose. In “High Cost of Living” he’s a guy who sets aside his marriage and steady job for “cocaine and a whore,” while the steady-chugging “Mowing Down the Roses” has him jump-starting the old John Deere to destroy his ex’s flower bed. When he’s not thinking about the ruined marriage, he’s equally sullen about the state of country music. An open admirer of Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson, Mr. Johnson favors older styles. He sings more than one waltz and uses lean, subdued band arrangements that ooze pedal steel guitar into the empty spaces. He and his collaborators come up with couplets like “That Southern Baptist parkin’ lot/ Was where I’d go to smoke my pot.” And near the end of the album one woman can still reach him: his momma....full text |
| | Courant | For a band with such a global outlook — front woman Sabina Sciubba sings in five languages — Brazilian Girls have always had an air of impenetrability.
The New York City quartet specializes in urbane dance music, melding electronic beats with mod organs and space-age synths. It's the stuff of modeling-agency soirees, though to the group's credit, its first two albums were subversive enough to suggest a target audience other than metropolitan pretty people....full text |
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