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New York City | 
 enlarge | Artist: Brazilian Girls
Label: Verve
Category: Music
List Price: $13.98
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 840
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 001092902
UPC: 602517643475
EAN: 0602517643475
ASIN: B001BPQRRS
Release Date: August 5, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | St. Petersburg | | • | Losing Myself | | • | Berlin | | • | Strangeboy | | • | Good Time | | • | Nouveau Americain | | • | 'Interprete | | • | Internacional | | • | Ricardo | | • | I Want Out | | • | Mano de Dios |
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Album Description
Third album by the critically acclaimed group expands on their signature, multi-lingual sound while paying respect to their international roots and the city where they got their start. The album also features renowned Senagalese musician Baaba Maal as a guest vocalist on "Internacional," and Kenny Wollesen and The Himalayas on multiple tracks. "...the band's reputation as an energetic live act has set the table for a possible crossover to the mainstream...in the tradition of other left-of-center, genre-bending acts from New York such as Dee-Lite or the Talking Heads." -Los ngeles Times "...unceasingly irresistible" - Entertainment Weekly Produced by Hector Castillo and Brazilian Girls
Album Description
The result of nearly eight months' worth of work on their own and with producer Hector Castillo, the boldly titled New York City is Brazilian Girls' most sophisticated, dynamic effort yet. To be sure, the album contains its fair share (more, really) of uptempo party-starters: 'We just want to have a good time all the time,' Sciubba admits gleefully over an infectious hand-clap beat in the aptly named 'Good Time,' while 'Losing Myself' rides a go-go organ groove. Yet New York City also reveals a deeper, more contemplative side of Brazilian Girls' sound, one that Johnston says reflects the band's desire to 'actually sit down and write rather than just jam at the club.'Sciubba cites influences like Caetano Veloso and Feist. 'I think we were feeling like we wanted to push ourselves in other directions,' adds Gutman. 'We were interested in exploring a wider range of emotions.'
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| Customer Reviews: Read 6 more reviews...
 Good not great and best for already established fans September 28, 2008
J. Wright Witcher
This the third Brazilian Girls CD is another evolution for them - just as much as Jique was compared to their Brazilian Girls debut album. Words and music have gone from dreamy/introspective and infused with sex (debut), to edgy/political (Jique) to, in this case, verging on obscure. Established BG fans like me will keep listening to it, and it does grow on you - but not without effort. If you have had someone say to you, "Brazilian Girls are great - check them out", I'd strongly recommend that you start with one or the other of their first two CD's. As always, in order to really like these guys, you have to have fairly eclectic musical taste and internationalist tendencies - lyrics are in English here, in French, Italian, German or Spanish there, often within the same piece (and no lyricis in the liner notes -shame!). Rhythmic intensity, a trademark of BG from the beginning, is definitely still here, though maybe not as inventive as in previous CD's. I look forward to seeing Brazilian Girls live as they tour this - if you like live shows, do not miss them - Sabrina Sciubba is electric, and both Didi Gutman and Aaron Johnston are awesome musicians. The energy level is very high. BG have replaced their old website with a good MySpace page - tour dates, samples, etc are all there.
Disappointed. September 21, 2008
Music Lover 327 (WA)
First let me say: the first two Brazilian Girls albums are incredible. I have listened to them more than any other two albums I own over the last couple of years. This one is a lot different, mainly because it lacks the rhythmic bass lines and instead adds some sort of tribal-sounding drums. Also, there seems to be less creativity in the song structure and certainly the lyrics are less interesting. I did not look to see who writes the lyrics, but for whatever reason there is certainly a down-turn since the earlier two albums. Judged on its own merits, this is an OK album. It is pretty typical for the genre, with 3 or 4 decent songs and several that I would rather not listen to again. I will probably not play it very often in the future, but I still have the first two Brazilian Girls albums which remain favorites in my collection.
 First BG album for me - won't get another September 12, 2008
mmmmm (Northeast, USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
With all the great reviews, I was highly looking forward to this album. I was sorely disappointed. The album starts off solid, but really, there's only a few songs on here I would recommend: St Petersburg, L'Interprete, I Want Out, and maybe Mano De Dios and Losing Myself.
I just find this album all over the place and not coherent. All of my car companions were bored listening to this and wanted to skip many of the tracks. Maybe their other stuff is better, but if this is your first Brazilian Girls album - like it was for me - you're probably in for a let down. I would either try another one of their albums first or skip the band entirely (as I will do from now on).
Cool mix of oldschool and modern electronica September 9, 2008
James A. Tolen (Los Angeles, CA)
Good album overall, some of the tracks are forgettable, but some you will be singing in your head for days. :)
Big Let Down September 6, 2008
Melbelle (Bay Area, CA)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
I was looking forward to this third album after falling in love with their first two about a year and a half ago. Unfortunately, NYC does not even come close to their previous work. The songs are simple and boring. Many of them are too repetitive to tolerate. I have a philosophy on music: If a chorus or verse gets stuck in your head really easily, it's a crappy, unorginal, and highly formulated song.
This is the kind of stuff NYC is; very formulated; very produced for the large masses of people who listen to crappy music (i.e. stuff on the radio waves). I don't think the band worked as hard on this one, because it's so simple-sounding. The first time I listened to album I had to keep skipping songs because they were so bad. By the end of the cycle I wanted to throw the CD out my window, I was so dissapointed. Now after listening to it maybe six more times, I like it a little better. But it's NOTHING compared to their first 2 albums. I hope they put some more effort into the next album, and less into luring new fans who can't appreciate truly good music.
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