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Music : The Private Press
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Rating: 
- Can we start giving half stars? Its really worth 4 and a half......
I probably should have done this review earlier, but it just seems the right time to get people to listen to properly GOOD music (dance music seems to have gone down the drain a bit).
Josh Davis has come up with another winner here, in a sense that this album is quite removed from Endtroducing. As reviewers have said already (and i agree), this is a more "song"-orientated album, allowing you to skip to a favourite song, whereas endtroducing was more an album to listen through in one go.
The reason i give it 4 (but 4 1/2 in my heart), is because of the two dud tracks slap bang in the middle of the album (namely 'Right thing' and' Monosylabik'). Definitely not DJ Shadow quality.
This shouldn't detract anyone from the rest of the album though, as it is brilliant. I can't pick out any stand-out track really, but i am drawn to 'you can't go home again' and 'six days'.
Definitely an album to get especially if, like me, you're stuck at university and surrounded by cheesy music 24/7. Otherwise, get it anyway. No disappointments included.
Rating: - Worthy celebration of the joys of music
Read the liner notes: This is abstract post modern music. It's not supposed to convey any messages. It's apolitical and completely without ego. Rather it's a celebration of modern popular music and the position it holds in modern society. Mr. Davis writes that there should be something here to make everyone smile. I think he succeeded there, there is something for everyone. Unfortanately, this is the albums major downfall. The versitility makes for a fractured listen, and there's no guarantee that you'll like every track.
Me, I like pretty much all of it. However, I usually skip past the tedious old skool hip hop of Un Autre Introduction and Walkie Talkie, and Mashing on the Motorway grinds a bit, (the obscenities are funny but anachronistic) but the remainding tracks are pure quality. Letter From Home and Fixed Income make for a suitably ominous opening, setting a mood that is perfectly complimented by my personal favourite, Six Days. It's the song that made me by the album in the first place, and it's easily as good as anything on Endtroducing, if not better.
Ah, Endtroducing, the album to which this will ALWAYS be compared. So how does it compare? Well, it's more song based. Endtroducing flowed beautifully to create an overall satisfying listening experience. With the Private Press, on the other hand, it's easier to dip in, listen to one or two songs, without missing the bigger picture. As an analogy, I'd liken Endtroducing to a stream you kayak down. The Private Press is more like a series of picturesque ponds in a landscaped garden. They should all be judged on their individual merits.
As such, there are some brilliant pieces of music on here. Everyone WILL find something they like about it, but very few people will like all of it. A fractured masterpiece then, like Electric Ladyland or The White Album for the B-Boy generation.
Rating:
- still waiting......
After such a highly acclaimed fist solo album in Endtroducing... which showed Josh Davis to be amongst the greatest and experimental of producers a follow up LP was eagerly anticipated and to an extent demanded by an over-awed audience .
'The Private Press' is as an album as experimental as its predecessor but feels like a selection of individual tracks (ranging from staggering to just plain daft) put together to fill an album just to stifle a demand . Since its release many of the tracks have been tinkered with (see The Private Repress) by a whole host of producers and made more appealing to differing tastes which would suggest that the bones are there but the flesh is missing . The album suffers for a lack of flow between tracks which was Endtroducing's greatest strength , something I'd expected would have come naturally from someone from a 'DJ' background .
If you've newly discovered Shadow from Endtroducing... my advice would be to source the 'In tune and on time' CD/DVD and buy that instead .
Rating:
- Awesome
Buy it now
Rating: - Six Years... Six...
It's really not a bad album and I would give it 3 and 1/2 stars if I could...
I don't know but I like to see that artist has progressed in some way when his new album comes out, but I find substance of 'Private Press' too similar to stuff on'Endtroducing'('Giving Up The Ghost' can easily be mistaken for a track from that album), but I guess you can't expect an artist to change his style every time he makes a new album and to make a great album too, can't you?.
More on, in comparison to 'Endtroducing' there are some tracks that seem more user friendly and I'm sure MTV audience will be very pleased, but they lack on uniqueness and depth. Like 'Six Day War' which sounds good, but is an ordinary trip-hop treat and one with a message on morality of war too, how highly original...
I must say that I actually liked 'Monosylabik' and 'Mashin On Motorway', that have some creativity and good groove in them but probably won't make you dazzled and hungry for more.
In my opinion there are some pretty cool tracks on this album too, like 'Mongrel' and 'You Can't Go Home Again' and 'Blood On The Motorway' is o.k.
All in all 'Private Press' is a good album, and still better than majority of hip hop albums that record companies serve to the massess and DJ Shadow is a very interesting figure on the today's stagnant scene, and he did push the boundaries of the genre once before, so go ahead and try it, and please don't expect it to be 'your ordinary hip hop DJ' he is something more.
- Can we start giving half stars? Its really worth 4 and a half......I probably should have done this review earlier, but it just seems the right time to get people to listen to properly GOOD music (dance music seems to have gone down the drain a bit).
Josh Davis has come up with another winner here, in a sense that this album is quite removed from Endtroducing. As reviewers have said already (and i agree), this is a more "song"-orientated album, allowing you to skip to a favourite song, whereas endtroducing was more an album to listen through in one go.
The reason i give it 4 (but 4 1/2 in my heart), is because of the two dud tracks slap bang in the middle of the album (namely 'Right thing' and' Monosylabik'). Definitely not DJ Shadow quality.
This shouldn't detract anyone from the rest of the album though, as it is brilliant. I can't pick out any stand-out track really, but i am drawn to 'you can't go home again' and 'six days'.
Definitely an album to get especially if, like me, you're stuck at university and surrounded by cheesy music 24/7. Otherwise, get it anyway. No disappointments included.
Rating:
- Worthy celebration of the joys of musicRead the liner notes: This is abstract post modern music. It's not supposed to convey any messages. It's apolitical and completely without ego. Rather it's a celebration of modern popular music and the position it holds in modern society. Mr. Davis writes that there should be something here to make everyone smile. I think he succeeded there, there is something for everyone. Unfortanately, this is the albums major downfall. The versitility makes for a fractured listen, and there's no guarantee that you'll like every track.
Me, I like pretty much all of it. However, I usually skip past the tedious old skool hip hop of Un Autre Introduction and Walkie Talkie, and Mashing on the Motorway grinds a bit, (the obscenities are funny but anachronistic) but the remainding tracks are pure quality. Letter From Home and Fixed Income make for a suitably ominous opening, setting a mood that is perfectly complimented by my personal favourite, Six Days. It's the song that made me by the album in the first place, and it's easily as good as anything on Endtroducing, if not better.
Ah, Endtroducing, the album to which this will ALWAYS be compared. So how does it compare? Well, it's more song based. Endtroducing flowed beautifully to create an overall satisfying listening experience. With the Private Press, on the other hand, it's easier to dip in, listen to one or two songs, without missing the bigger picture. As an analogy, I'd liken Endtroducing to a stream you kayak down. The Private Press is more like a series of picturesque ponds in a landscaped garden. They should all be judged on their individual merits.
As such, there are some brilliant pieces of music on here. Everyone WILL find something they like about it, but very few people will like all of it. A fractured masterpiece then, like Electric Ladyland or The White Album for the B-Boy generation.
Rating:
- still waiting......After such a highly acclaimed fist solo album in Endtroducing... which showed Josh Davis to be amongst the greatest and experimental of producers a follow up LP was eagerly anticipated and to an extent demanded by an over-awed audience .
'The Private Press' is as an album as experimental as its predecessor but feels like a selection of individual tracks (ranging from staggering to just plain daft) put together to fill an album just to stifle a demand . Since its release many of the tracks have been tinkered with (see The Private Repress) by a whole host of producers and made more appealing to differing tastes which would suggest that the bones are there but the flesh is missing . The album suffers for a lack of flow between tracks which was Endtroducing's greatest strength , something I'd expected would have come naturally from someone from a 'DJ' background .
If you've newly discovered Shadow from Endtroducing... my advice would be to source the 'In tune and on time' CD/DVD and buy that instead .
Rating:
- AwesomeBuy it now
Rating:
- Six Years... Six...It's really not a bad album and I would give it 3 and 1/2 stars if I could...
I don't know but I like to see that artist has progressed in some way when his new album comes out, but I find substance of 'Private Press' too similar to stuff on'Endtroducing'('Giving Up The Ghost' can easily be mistaken for a track from that album), but I guess you can't expect an artist to change his style every time he makes a new album and to make a great album too, can't you?.
More on, in comparison to 'Endtroducing' there are some tracks that seem more user friendly and I'm sure MTV audience will be very pleased, but they lack on uniqueness and depth. Like 'Six Day War' which sounds good, but is an ordinary trip-hop treat and one with a message on morality of war too, how highly original...
I must say that I actually liked 'Monosylabik' and 'Mashin On Motorway', that have some creativity and good groove in them but probably won't make you dazzled and hungry for more.
In my opinion there are some pretty cool tracks on this album too, like 'Mongrel' and 'You Can't Go Home Again' and 'Blood On The Motorway' is o.k.
All in all 'Private Press' is a good album, and still better than majority of hip hop albums that record companies serve to the massess and DJ Shadow is a very interesting figure on the today's stagnant scene, and he did push the boundaries of the genre once before, so go ahead and try it, and please don't expect it to be 'your ordinary hip hop DJ' he is something more.