A Curious Thing

Production

  • Amy Macdonald
  • Pete Wilkinson

A Curious Thing is the second album by Scottish singer-songwriter Amy Macdonald. It was released on March 8, 2010.

Formation

A Curious Thing was recorded at Paul Weller's BlackBarn Studios in Surrey. The songwriting Macdonald began in spring 2009, in a break from their tour commitments. Unlike the debut, whose songs were written in one go, she grabbed here back to their old notebooks. In retrospect, says MacDonald about this time that she was very busy during this time and there was constantly on tour.

Reception

  • Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic called the music on A Curious Thing " soft and shiny upper-class pop with a beating heart." The voice Macdonalds he described as " passionate ", but criticized that they often sing a little about their encounter with the fame. The album reached three out of five stars rating.
  • Matthias Denecke of Laut.de slating the album and brought it to the formula " unambitious, smooth, sterile". Above all, the lyrics are " innovationsarm ", from the third song the singer WOULD "somehow unmotivated ".
  • Plattentests.de awarded with five out of ten a mediocre rating: "As much as this album also rocks, sighs, dramatized and evokes the good and evil spirits of love, all the runs, however, in paths that do not want to be surprised and quite carried away ." However, the first single Do not Tell Me That It's Over is despite its partial About Produced awareness a " anthemic pop hit, in which Macdonald's voice makes palpable emotion and pathos sprayed in the best sense. "

Title list

CD 1:

Hidden Track: Dancing in the Dark (Live in Philadelphia )

Song information

The piece Spark, the second, less successful single on the Top Ten hit Do not Tell Me That It's Over, was written in memory of the murdered boy James Bulger after watching a TV program about the case. Do not Tell Me That It's Over is only superficially a love song: the song is actually by climate change. The remaining songs are, among others, Michael Jackson, Gerard Butler, Macdonald's grandparents and her ex - fiancé Steve Lovell, who among other things, played at the football club Partick Thistle. This Pretty Face explores the lives of celebrities and what happens when they are no longer popular.

The Hidden Track Dancing in the Dark is a cover of the same song by Bruce Springsteen from the year 1984. The bonus CD also includes with Fairytale of New York is a remake of the song, which was published in 1987 by The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl. The album title refers to a line in the song No Roots, which states: ". This life I lead is a curious thing but I can not deny the happiness it brings " Your mother had suggested to her the title of 2010, which they as " rubbish" dismissed. Some time later, Prince released the eponymous album 20TEN. This anecdote was told MacDonald at concerts in 2010.

Their song The Road to Home, she wrote for her father, whom she first saw crying after their common dog had died. In an interpretation of the song Caledonia ( the Latin- Celtic name for Scotland), which was originally written by Scottish folk singer Dougie MacLean in 1979, she expresses her local ties.

Awards for music sales

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