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Deep Blue (Bonus Dvd)

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A good follow up album from Grey Will Fade, highly recommended. Charlotte Hatherley is musically experimental, reinvents herself and her music and the transformations are always a great leap forward on many levels, you should definitely have this in your collection as well.

Second solo album from former Ash guitarist/guitarist for hire (Brian Ferry, Bat for Lashes, KT Tunstall) Charlotte Hatherley, The Deep Blue is not as immediately accessible as her very punk-pop/new wave-ish debut album Grey Will Fade. It doesn't have the quirky radio singles like Bastardo, Kim Wilde, and Summer, that were centerpieces of that underrated record. It's a much more challenging record, but one that reveals itself with repeated listens. After a couple listens, it becomes one of those records you have to listen to all the way through. Hatherley is an interestingly quirky songwriter, a very accomplished guitarist, and a pretty good vocalist. Different songs on this record echo everyone from Pink Floyd to Radiohead to XTC to Harriet Wheeler of The Sundays to Nina Persson of The Cardigans, the bass line on the second track is certainly reminiscent of Come Together by The Beatles, and she is definitely a big Bowie fan, but she blends all of these influences and sounds into something that is very uniquely her own style. Try this one out and you won't regret it. Just give it a few listens. While you're at it, check out Grey Will Fade and New Worlds, her other albums, both of which are excellent--but quite different from this one.

Fair play to Charlotte. She added a new dimension to Ash when she joined. Now she has gone solo. After an excellent poppy debut solo album, she has returned with this more contemplative sophomore effort.
I really love the instrumentation, her voice and the song arrangements. The songs are very much left of the middle. She multi-tracks her voice on a lot of the songs. It would be hard to see her replicate this stuff live without a full choir. However, as an album is it lovely - dreamy, contemplative and experimental. Her voice is as sexy as hell also. I especially love the second song on the album "Be Thankful". It builds to a crescendo with more and more instruments added to the mix.Other highlights for me would be "Wounded Sky" and "Behave". This whole album is so accomplished and brilliant that I am surprised that she stayed in Ash so long. She must have been bursting to get away and express herself. If she continues in this vein, she hopefully will get the recognition she deserves.

the most experimental indie/alternative rock music since the kelley deal 6000. the way one instrument steals control over what key the song is in from another is continually amazing.

We all loved her in Ash. She brought some sexiness to that geek-band. Her first solo outing was great and this is even better. It rocks somewhat less which is a shame but I would recommend it. It is true that it is very spacy in a 4AD way as most other people have said.