GrantNicholas

I find, after listening to the album more than once, that they have personality, grit, and decent compositional skills. Furthermore, this work is less "commercial" compared to the previous Mentre Tutto Scorre. If they stop "covering" Muse and Radiohead from the The Bends era and start daring more, the future is (also) theirs.

Deviljin, I don't think Doherty does it because "he thinks he can create masterpieces"; he just does it. And he didn't gain musical credibility through backdoor means (the relationship with Moss), the Libertines were already acclaimed before. So far, he certainly hasn't produced any masterpieces, he has done great things in the past (I find his work with the Libertines excellent), much less so with Babyshambles; in the debut, there are standout tracks (Fuck Forever is truly excellent, then 8 Dead Boys rightly mentioned by the reviewer and Albion was okay too) alongside some abysmal ones (one, I'm not joking, sounds like a Sean Paul track, I think it was Pentonville). The Blinding was pleasant but flat. This Delivery, and also Carry On Up The Morning which is the only other track I've heard from the new album, look very promising. Let's hope Stephen Street's production pays off, because I found his work on the latest Kaiser Chiefs excellent, but the one on A New Morning by Suede dreadful.

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Fan review. Great piece, and I certainly don't adore Doherty.

Damn Mien, you're right!!! I've been listening to them for years and I've never noticed, what a goat I am! @ Mopy: yes, I often repeat some words, it's a flaw of mine.

"The Mix-Up" is the latest album by the Beastie Boys released last June, a completely instrumental record, in which the three MCs seem to be engaged in ‘giving away’ their beats to anyone after stealing those of others for decades.
A record that went a bit under the radar, not surprising fans or casual listeners, but still a good album that has not affected (positively or negatively) the Beasties' career at all.
Now for Adam "MCA" Yauch, Mike "Mike D" Diamond, and Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz begins phase two of "The Mix-Up," the most interesting part from the listeners' point of view: the Beastie Boys have invited three English musicians to the studio to record the vocal parts of the album.
“We contacted different artists who can create remixes and add vocal parts,” Yauch explained to Billboard.com. “So it won't be us singing. It will be a different version of the album, featuring a handful of British people,” namely Jarvis Cocker, M.I.A., and Lily Allen. “It will be interesting to see what they can do with our material.”
At the same time, the three New Yorkers are working on a new album: “We just started to waste a bit of time”; a visual version of “The Mix-Up”: “We’re filming [on tour] with a Super8 camera, we want to make a movie that lasts as long as the album”; while Yauch himself is working on a documentary about American high school basketball players visiting the NBA. SOURCE: ROCKSTAR.IT

No, 5 no. I have to say, though, that there’s a step up from Chocolate Starfish, contrary to what many say. I find it a good album, let’s say sufficient, but nothing extraordinary. I would have also mentioned Let Me Down, very beautiful.

They are preparing a version with vocal parts, and they will use English vocalists (including Lily Allen). But I don't know if they will be remixes... Great review!

Marco, I don't agree with you for a simple reason: the blame for what happened to Elisa is solely on Elisa herself. She has already accumulated enough success and money to tell the record label and easy money to screw off, but she doesn't. Furthermore, repeating the levels of her early work is difficult for everyone. She's an artist in free fall, and the evident proof of this is that she has started singing in Italian. To me, she's simply the new Pausini, with the only difference being that Miss Toffoli writes her own songs. Ten years ago, if they had offered her a duet with Ligabue, she would have told them to screw off. Today, all she needs is a collaboration with Vasco, and it's done. Sigh.