KATIE MELUA Pictures LP DRAMATIC 2008 UK orig+inner DRAMLP003
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THIS IS THE UK ORIGINAL PRESSING on DRAMATICO label.SINGLE COVER + INNER SLEEVE. The cover is in VG+ condition: normal wear BUT light discolouration/wear on/near corners, mild creases on edges, surface marks/hairlines on front/rear, left spine is fully readable; for details see photos. Vinyl is in EX/NM condition [barely played. RARE ALBUM.
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KATIE MELUA
With her warm vocals and artful sensibilities, Katie Melua is a sophisticated presence on the U.K. pop scene, drawing upon folk, jazz, and indie rock influences. She topped the British album charts with her first two albums, 2003's Call Off the Search and 2005's Piece by Piece, the latter of which helped her become the best-selling female musician in the U.K. at the time. Drawing upon artists like Kate Bush, Eva Cassidy, and Joni Mitchell, Melua has carved out a distinctive place in the contemporary pop world.
"PICTURES" 2008 LP DRAMATICO RECORDS DRAMLP003 MADE IN ENGLAND ORIGINAL PRESSING SINGLE COVER + INNER SLEEVE Barcode and Other Identifiers Barcode: 8 02987 00951 5 Label Code: LC 13350 LABEL: DRAMATICO - ARTWORK LABEL w/LOGO aon TOP - WHITE TEXT Catalog on cover: DRAMLP003 Catalog on labels: DRAMLP003 Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped): 69605 4A DRAMLP 003 Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped): 69605 4B DRAMLP 003 On labels: rim text "Dramatico Records..........℗ 2008 & © 2007 Dramatico Entertainment Limited....LC13350" On Back Cover: Tracklist ℗ 2008 Dramatico Entertainment Limited © 2007 Dramatico Entertainment Limited.......LC13350 tracklisting: please, for tracklist see picturesgrading
RECORD EX/NM but (please, read above description)
SLEEVE VG+ but (please, see pictures and read above description)
With a voice that sounds like a more mainstream version of the late jazz cult superstar Eva Cassidy and smoky raven-haired looks to rival a movie lot's worth of young ingénues, it's a bit of a surprise that Katie Melua has remained so unknown in the United States, despite the chart success the Eastern European-born songstress has achieved in her adopted home of the United Kingdom. It seems like she should be at least as popular as, say, Regina Spektor or Nellie McKay. Pictures may not help that much, however, because in comparison to its fairly straightforward jazz-tinged singer/songwriter predecessors, Melua's third album takes a bit of a left turn into the self-consciously quirky. It's a wonder that it took so long, because Melua's producer and part-time songwriter is Mike Batt, a minor legend of the U.K. music scene who has fashioned a decades-long career out of deliberate eccentricity. Much of Pictures sounds like Batt is reverting to his '70s children's music productions for the Wombles, especially "Mary Pickford (Used to Eat Roses)," a horrifyingly cutesy song about the early days of Hollywood royalty; "Scary Films," a thinly disguised cop of early Kate Bush tracks like "Hammer Horror" and "Wow," and the fake reggae "Ghost Town," which sounds like Batt experimenting with getting as close to ripping off the Specials' classic of the same name without veering into actual plagiarism. The closer Melua comes to restrained adult pop, like the unexpectedly touching Batt-penned torch ballad "What It Says on the Tin," and the gently swaying, Everything But the Girl-like bossa nova bounce of "Perfect Circle," the better the album is. The songs written by Melua by herself and/or with lyricist Molly McQueen are uniformly stronger than Batt's contributions, particularly the intimate, smoky "Spellbound," suggesting that leaving her mentor would do Katie Melua a world of good...(AllMusic)
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