Nocturnes (Little Boots album)
Nocturnes is the title of the second studio album by English recording artist Victoria Hesketh, better known by her stage name Little Boots. It was released in May 2013 around the world.
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- 7.2 Notes and references
Background
Hesketh spoke for the first time in March 2010, with plans for a second album. It should be " Rawer and a bit more down-to- earth". " It'll be quiet magical, but quite dark and spooky at the same time. " [ It will still be magical, but at the same time quite dark and eerie. ] In May 2011, she appeared in Beijing at the China Music Valley International Music Festival, where they introduced a new song called " Crescendo ", which ultimately ended up in seventh list of tracks on the album. 2011 and 2012 were published with "Shake " and " Every Night I Say A Prayer " two other songs on the album as a download on the internet. In June 2012, Little Boots released with "Headphones " another single, but the song of the final track list for the album has been deleted.
In an interview with the DIY Magazine in December 2012 Hesketh revealed that she just investing the finishing touches to her second album, and told continues: "I feel a lot more at peace about where I'm at creatively as an artist now than a year or so ago [ ... ] I think everyone is always nervous releasing anything they've created into the world, but I've Realized what I want to do and how I can achieve achievement it, rather than trying to please other people. " [ I am much happier with where I am as an artist now than I was a year ago. [ ... ] I think everyone is nervous when he does something he has created accessible to others, but I have realized what I want to do and how I can achieve that, instead of being constantly make another right. ] Musically, she said, they better represent the album as an artist. it was an upbeat album and less influenced by the synth pop of the eighties, which she attributes to the fact that she has spent a lot of time DJing in clubs and listening to dance music. [It definitely feels more representative of me of an artist. [ ... ] It's less 80s synth pop Influenced, it's quite an upbeat album, Which I think Has stemmed from the fact I have been DJing a lot, and listening to a lot of dance music. ]
In January 2013, announced Little Boots, their second album was completed. The end of February they published via Instagram the cover and the track list of the album. The designed by Jack Featherstone and Max Parsons artwork shows three photographs of the singer against a black background. The left photograph shows a blue colored portrait of the singer, who looks to the left of the screen. The mean intake is colored red and shows a Ganzkörperaufname, in Hesketh looks straight at the viewer. The last photograph is a profiling of Hesketh, which is colored yellow. In white letters of Century Gothic type the name of the artist and the album can be seen at the top or bottom of the screen.
This was the same time the title of the album - Nocturnes ( roughly: " night " ) - revealed. The artist explained the idea behind the title: Nocturnes is an album " indebted to the night" [ the night indebted to ].
Publication
In November 2011, the album track "Shake " was released as a former lead single from the album. Premiere was the British radio station BBC Radio 1 after already a short snippet of the song on the mixtape Shake Until Your Heart Breaks from October 2011 has been released. " Every Night I Say A Prayer " was released in April 2012 as a download. Previously appeared again a short clip on a mixtape (Into The Future ) on which the song as Into The Future was announced, but later renamed as a single and appeared on the album. The associated, shot by Zaiba Jabbar music video debuted on May 1, 2012 Little Boots ' official Youtube channel. Little Boots published on 25 February 2013 ' towing vehicle <. " As a free download and first taste of the upcoming album on their official website As a pre-release single to advertise the album Broken Record was released on March 18, 2013 as a download.
Nocturnes first appeared on May 3 in Australia on CD. Gradually, the album was in Europe ( in Germany on May 5 as a download, on May 10 on CD) as well as in Hesketh's native Britain ( also on May 5 as a download, on May 6 as a CD) and the United States (at the 5 Mai. released as a download, on May 7, on CD) on Hesketh selbstgegründetem label on Repeat Records. The first edition of 1000 were in was accompanied by the artist siginierte CDs or LPs, where a download to the album as well as a t-shirt with the motif of the album cover, created by British fashion and music label Million Hands.
Songs
Opening track of the album is the title " Motorway ", the Hesketh written in collaboration with Jim Eliot, a British electropop duo Kish half of Mauve, who have already worked with Kylie Minogue. The song is about the desire to run away and leave the old life. Hesketh invites the listener to meet with her on the highway to get together to compete to escape and find a perfect place for both far away from obligations and concerns. [ Meet me on the motorway, togehter we can make our great escape. [ ... ] Maybe we can find our perfect place. ] This is followed by " Confusion", the Jeppe Laursen with, one of the songwriters of Lady Gaga's hit " Born This Way", was born. In this song Hesketh sings that she is lied to by a person well known to her, and they do not recognize. [ Everything's changed, you're not the same. [ ... ] I've been caught up in a lie. ] In the C part of the song ] the phrase "never lie to me again" [ Lie to me is to never again. Repeated.
The single " Broken Record ", which was written with Devrim Karaoglu and Rick Nowels, who has worked with Madonna, Nelly Furtado and Lana Del Rey addresses the end of a relationship, according to the Hesketh describes how she always the voice of her former hear say her name again and again. It will use the metaphor of a hung record [ I hear your voice like a broken record, saying my name every second. ]. In the C part is the phrase "voice like a broken record " repeated four times with different effects are placed on Hesketh's voice. At the end of the song syllables of the words "every " and " broken" are repeated several times in order to clarify once again the endless loop in which the lyric I is. The song ends with a fadeout. " Every Night I Say A Prayer " deals with the topic of love. The lyric I tried an object of desire to convince them to make the best choice with him and confesses his deep infatuation and is confident of the success of his plan, but pray every night that it may work. [ I have seen into the future, I want you to take me there. [ ... ] Every night I say a prayer. ]
" Crescendo ," the second collaboration with Jim Eliot, uses the same music theory lecture designation as a metaphor for the louder voices of a warring couple. The argument begins with a careless remark uttered [ Just a thought careless Said without thinking. ] And degenerates, which describes Hesketh so that both are with swords over and run in circles around each other. [Soon we're drawing swords and making circles. ] In the course of the song is clear that the lyric I would prefer to settle the dispute. It complains that the noise of voices could not bear [I can not stand the noise. ] And asks: " Can we stop and talk it over, instead of talking over ourselves? " [ Can we stop and talk about instead to drown out just the other ?] "Strangers " deals with the alienation of two people who believed to know well. [I know you so well, but we dance like strangers tonight. ] "All For You" deals with the complete devotion to another person, and that one makes the decision to do everything in his life for another person. [ At the end of my days, whenthey ask what it all for what, then I want to say, it's all for you. ]
Critics votes
Nocturnes received mixed reviews. Maxmillian Nitzke ( CDstarts.de ) gave the album four out of ten possible points, and criticized the " painfully implemented technical limitations " of Arrangenments, however, praised the launch of the album with " Motorway " and " Confusion", which he performed as Anspieltipps. Furthermore, he wrote: "Just because the kick seemed to really connect with the quality of the debut, the subsequent crash landing acting more violent. And except for one or two like representatives of mediocrity, you have to bother with this simply weak plate. " Kurt Murphy, who praised the album for the New Musical Express -reviewed " Crescendo "as" brilliant " and summarized the album as " catchy and classy electronic dance music " [ catchy and classic electronic music ] together, but wrote" Broken Record "sounds like a euro vision - tinged soundtrack to Hopaktanz [a euro Vision -endorsed soundtrack to Cassack dancing ], and" satellite " is a lax version of Madonna " Ray of Light" [a limp version of Madonna 's ' Ray Of Light'. ]. In a record review for Pitchfork Media Katherine St. Asaph wrote that Hesketh on Nocturnes striving for the cool distance of Sarah Cracknell or Sophie Ellis -Bextor. [ Nocturnes finds her settling on one did aspire to the distance of Saint Etienne 's Sarah Cracknell or Sophie Ellis -Bextor. ] And continued: " She's not quite there, and when to her approach does not work, it really does not [. ..] Nocturnes is a big improvement over hands, though, where even the biggest singles ' hooks were made of saccharine, not sugar. " [ do not achieved their goal completely, and if their approach does not work, they do not work. [ ... ] Nocturnes is nevertheless a tremendous increase over Hands on which were the hooks of saccharin, not made of sugar. ]
In a review for the UK Guardian, Caroline Sullivan Nocturnes described as "one of the pop records of the year" [ one of the pop albums of the year ] and continued to write: "it's warm and heartfelt, but the other side of the coin is its streak of wistful self- deprecation. " [ it is warm and comes from the heart, but is the other side of the coin, it has a wistful tinge of self-mockery. ] and summarized the album as " delightful " [ adorable ] together. Albert Koch of the German magazine Musik Express gave the album four stars out of five and wrote: "It initially strikes that the album as opposed to Hands obvious hits like " Stuck On Repeat "," Remedy " ," New In Town " and " Hands" are missing, but - despite not even so small stylistic differences between the ten songs - a lot more work as an album. [ ... ] Despite the 90 - year -house references, echoes of 70s Disco, clearly referencing the contemporary, tech - housy Electronica ( " Broken Record ", " Shake" ) is the goal of the 29 -year-old Englishwoman the perfect pop song. And then come sometime in the course of further hearings of the Nocturnes hits: " Motorway ", " Shake ", " Broken Record ", " Every Night I Say A Prayer ", " Confusion". It can also be formulated as follows: Nocturnes is the consistent dance-pop album that is Kylie Minogue in her career did not succeed. "
Title list
Contributors
- Victoria Hesketh - Vocals
- Andrew Butler - Production ( 9)
- John Dent - Mastering
- Bruno Ellingham - Bass ( 7), mixed (1-10)
- Jack Featherstone - art director
- James Ford - Production ( 4)
- Tim Goldsworthy - Production (1-3, 5-10), Synthesizer ( 1, 3, 5-10)
- Charlie Jones - Bass ( 5)
- Jeppe Laursen - Production ( 2)
- Rory Van Milligen - Photographs
- Daren Morris - Keyboard ( 2, 5, 7, 10)
- Max Parsons - art director
- Ariel Rechtshaid - Production ( 10)
Taken from the CD booklet of the album.
Charts
Neither Hesketh's home, the UK, or internationally could Nocturnes build on the success of the previous album Hands and only reached number 45 of the UK album charts, with 2,465 units sold in the first week.