Everything But The Girl
Amplified Heart

THE REVIEW

When you no longer have achievements in life, it happens that you lose inspiration, and you no longer get up, but remain in your state of uniform rectilinear motion. With this album, Everything But The Girl emerged in 1994 marking a pop dance epic that would make Italy envious (a country that, in my opinion, has produced the best dance music ever). The song that opens the album is "Rollercoaster," a well-assorted mix of various genres, followed by "Troubled Mind," a very meaningful and melancholic song. Then there's the track that tops them all in beauty, "Missing," full of sudden changes in time, space, rhythm, and voice, as if we were in an Ariosto-like poem where the protagonist (the listener) finds themselves facing a love story with the EBTG as the musical backdrop. The result is an impressive journey into the melancholic depths of memory, where the individual is subject to continuous nostalgic mood swings.

It is certainly not an "optimistic" album; rather, one could talk about an album that evokes past experiences with a not very happy ending. The album is a mirror of the life of the common man, and today in 2006, I understand how, even back in '94, the legendary singer with the unusual lips had hit the mark; perhaps she had read the future. The album is recommended to everyone who might have gone through a tough love period in the mythical '90s. Without taking my words too seriously, try listening to this album, which surely expresses many valid life experiences in which you will surely find yourselves. Now I'm heading back to Debaser, there's people in the chat ;) dedicated to: those who need someone they miss so much... love... free... fuck... sexydebaser!!!