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Strange & Beautiful (CD)

By: Aqualung (Artist)

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Aqualung Artist Snapshot:

The alias of U.K. singer-songwriter Matt Hales, Aqualung excels at emotive, piano-driven rock. Although an accomplished musician by his teens, Hales didn't reach an international audience with his plaintive ballads until 2005's STRANGE & BEAUTIFUL, a collection of tunes from his first two albums that introduced the introspective performer to U.S. listeners. While that compilation's title track proved to be a big hit in England, the swooning, Beatlesque "Brighter Than Sunshine" placed Hales on the musical map in America. Hales's success allowed him to record the more adventurous follow-up, MEMORY MAN.

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DISC 1 for Strange & Beautiful (CD) Album By Aqualung (Artist)
1   Strange & Beautiful (I'll Put A Spell On You)
2   Falling Out Of Love
3   Good Times Gonna Come
4   Brighter Than Sunshine
5   Breaking My Heart
6   Tongue-tied
7   Left Behind
8   You Turn Me Round
9   If I Fall
10   Easier To Lie
11   Extra Ordinary Thing
12   Another Little Hole
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (No. 969, p.110) - 4 stars out of 5 - "[U]niting Radiohead-ish British rock and symphonic pop...tenor Hales delivers keenly focused keyboard-based drama that blows away all pretenders trailing in Coldplay's wake..."

Title Note

Aqualung: Matt Hales (vocals, piano, Fender Rhodes piano, harpsichord, keyboards, vibraphone, tambourine, percussion, programming); Garrett Lee (guitar, keyboards, programming); Ben Hales (guitar, tambourine, background vocals); Jim Copperwaite (bass guitar); Paul Winter-Hart (drums); Kim Oliver (background vocals).

With a sweet, plaintive voice that slides easily into a soft falsetto, and a laconic way with the piano, young Matt Hales (AKA Aqualung) makes moping sound sexy. STRANGE & BEAUTIFUL--a compilation of tracks from Aqualung's first two UK albums--evokes a somber, rain-swept world where people drift prettily away from each other, bruise each other with indifference, and quietly break each other's hearts, all to a lazy back-beat and deep, programmed bass.

There is a consistency of mood here--literally every song is a ballad--but Hales is an able enough craftsman both as a producer and a writer to create intriguing variations in sound. "Left Behind" has an insistent, hook-laden melody and a slow, steady rock feel. On "If I Fall," Hales's poignant, Thom Yorke-ish vocal shadow-boxes with a great bass line, while slightly dissonant guitar arpeggios (rare on this keyboard-heavy album) tug at the heartstrings. The title track, a sweeping paean to an unrequited love, possesses the most enchanting and dour chorus since Rufus Wainwright's debut.

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