evanescence: talk to me sweetly

im not a music buff, nor am i a musician. as such, i am not offering a mind-blowing and thorough review of evanescence's latest album. and by mind-blowing and thorough, i mean something one of those pretentious [wannabe?] emo record store punks would spew

i guess whoever was writing with amy lee previously did not write on this album. you can tell, too. not that it's a bad thing by any stretch -- but i havent heard an album this bitter since kelly clarkson. uhh, not that ive heard that album or anything ;)

this album has a nice balance, a dichotomy if you will, between "piano" songs and "rocker" songs. by no strange coincidence, i think the two best songs on the album are more piano-driven, though one of them ("lithium") is a savory hybrid. definitely top notch song, best on the album.
dont you worry, you little rockers, amy brings you plenty to work with, but the emo kid in you might be reaching for the kleenex (knife) on some of the slower (incredibly beautiful) piano rifts.

one notable difference for me, for lack of a better description, is a return to the minor key tonality of their earlier works, which gives it more of a "goth" feeling, as shifta described it. it definitely works with ms lee's [soon to be dickinson] pipes

i think it bodes well for an album when the first single is only the 3rd or 4th best song on the album--hopefully theyll get it right and bring lithium strong and hard.
let me know if you want a snippet of lithium...and i do mean snippet b/c sharing music is against the law

admittedly i wrote this for two main reasons: (1) evanescence is fantastic, so i wanted to talk about it. think about ron burgundy wanting to scream from on top of a mountain that he was in love with veronica. glad i can dumb it down for you. and (b) im trying to open up the studio space for shifta to really get in and explore.

let me first start out with this --
I was explaining my last blog to someone, because she didn't get all of the sports references. But after I explained the franchise tag to her, this was her response:

LarMicMac7: wow
LarMicMac7: you love to do that to girls

That's as good as anything, right there.
Alright, now I'm on Ames. (literally) Umm... it's glorious. It's essentially Amy Lee's tribute to Silverchair, as far as I can tell. Seriously though -- there is some definite silverchairisimo to the album. And bruce is spot on, (as usual) it is, no doubt, a melodic minor-keyed melancholy musical masterpiece! (Alliteration for the rhymesters in the place, with style & grace)

"Lithium" is top shelf. Its the albums opus magnum, if you will. Its the yardstick of civilization. But if you really wanna know what its like to "date" shifta and/or dickinson, spin the final track, "Good Enough", and really sink your teeth in. The entire body of bitterness culminates with this final oeuvre. It's very special. And I'm very aroused.

Go pick up the album, ya know, because, you deserve it.
I think what we're both trying to say is... Amy... marry me..

P.S. you are my night sky