{"id":1288,"date":"2009-09-10T15:45:26","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T14:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1288"},"modified":"2009-09-10T15:45:26","modified_gmt":"2009-09-10T14:45:26","slug":"dot-allison-room-7-and-a-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1288","title":{"rendered":"dot allison &#8211; room 7 and a half"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>dot allison<\/strong> used to be the singer for the dubbed up pop band, <strong>one dove<\/strong>. i loved everything they released.<\/p>\n<p><strong>dot allison<\/strong> then released 2 solo albums (<font color=\"#008080\">afterglow<\/font>, and <font color=\"#008080\">we are science<\/font>) involving production from a whole bunch of well connected electronic\/dance\/rock collectives such as <strong>death in vegas<\/strong>, <strong>two lone swordsmen <\/strong>and of course, <strong>massive attack<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>both albums were great, and pre-empted the current love of all things dirty and electronic.<\/p>\n<p>now several years later now that the girls are leading the electronic pop pack and having hung out with the leader of grubby fingernail chic, <strong>pete doherty<\/strong> (who appears on <font color=\"#008080\">i wanna break your heart<\/font> which he co-wrote with dot), she has made a new album, <font color=\"#008080\">room 7 and a half<\/font>.<\/p>\n<p>this time with a proper backing band who comprise of the following folks : <\/p>\n<p>rob ellis, mick harvey, james johnston and terry edwards.<\/p>\n<p>so as you can see, she clearly has used her contact book to its full advantage.<\/p>\n<p>problem is, i don&#8217;t particularly enjoy the results.<\/p>\n<p>as much as her vocals are as sweet, sultry, and slightly unnerving as ever, the musical backing is too acoustic, too serious, and generally a little dull. <\/p>\n<p>i preferred the fucked up electronics, the moody atmospherics, instead here is all plucked acoustic guitars, pianos, and mournful emotions.<\/p>\n<p>of course, there are times that you can&#8217;t help but be impressed with the scope of experience on offer, and the cinematic strings on <font color=\"#008080\">fall to me<\/font> are rather special, however, any temporary magic is soon shattered by the earnestness of <strong>paul weller<\/strong> ram raiding the following track, <font color=\"#008080\">loves got me crazy<\/font>.<\/p>\n<p>clearly <strong>dot allison<\/strong> has moved into a new world, and no longer likes music made on machines. <\/p>\n<p>however, with the supporting cast&#160; like this, she will hopefully get her long overdue rewards, and quite possibly some love from radio 2.<\/p>\n<p>yes it really is that type of album.<\/p>\n<p><u>more detail<\/u> : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dotallison.co.uk\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>dot allison used to be the singer for the dubbed up pop band, one dove. i loved everything they released. dot allison then released 2 solo albums (afterglow, and we are science) involving production from a whole bunch of well connected electronic\/dance\/rock collectives such as death in vegas, two lone swordsmen and of course, massive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}