Artist: A Camp
Album: Colonia
Worth Buying: Yes every song
You will be interested in this album if you are fan of: The Cardigans, The Carpenters, The Bird And The Bee, Abba, Alt Pop
Tell Me More: You know that you are doing something right when you can win me over with just 30 seconds.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that more a person can hear a track the more likely they are to buy it. I love shopping for music at the Amazon Mp3 store more than itunes because of all the Superior deals that they give. But just like itunes, Amazon is saddled with only being able to offer 30 second clips. This is because copyright laws (which for the most part are a good thing) require sites like Amazon and itunes to only offer no more than a 30 second clip. Anything more than that becomes a broadcast that could require a royalty payment. The music industry certainly needs to work out an exemption with the sites that sell their music legally and compensates the artists.
So with that said, I will say again that you know you are doing something right when you can win me over with just 30 seconds. Because that is what A Camp did with their current album Colonia.
I let all the 30 second samples on their amazom page stream from my computer and I immeadiatly started thinking....wow this sounds really good.
I streamed it one more time and thought "Yes!" and bought the album.
Then I listened to the songs in their entirety and smiled. Each song is like biting into a bliss full piece of confection.
You just gotta love band that includes a line like: "We're gonna party like it's 1699", in their lyrics.
Colonia is actually the 2nd album from Cardigan's singer Nina Persson (This would be her side project) who says that they album borrows a lot of inspiration from girl-pop from the 60's, 80's punk and David Bowie.
Indeed. Many of the songs fall just under the 3 minute mark. This used to be the norm for pop songs, and is a lot more rare today, but it's this kind of economy that I think helped forged some of the best pop songs of all time and I think it serves this album quite well too.
Lyrical the album drips with with beautiful dreamlike imagery that is offset by hard cold irony. This album was a real surprise for me, and I am enjoying it more and more with each listen.
Listen to samples and buy Colonia in mp3 format here
CD Format
What if I am not ready to buy the whole album? Try The Crowning
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