The Last Laugh

Joker's Daughter | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 7, 2009)
• Original Release Date: 2009
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Team Love Records
• ASIN: B001T46UAU
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #283,339 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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"Utterly entrancing...like a creepy circus colliding with a polka band gone electronic, complete with quickly bouncing rhythms and plenty of theatrical presence" --Npr

Product Description

The Last Laugh is the debut album for Joker's Daughters - a collaboration between vocalist, songwriter and multiinstrumentalistHelena Costas, and uber producer/artist Danger Mouse (Gnarls Barkley). Like a cryptic, symbolic dream, the music of Joker's Da

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Robin Hood & the Princess of tunes..., July 19, 2009

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Nse Ette (Lagos, Nigeria) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Last Laugh (Audio CD)

Imagine Maid Marian, pretty and fair, and a Hip Hop-loving Robin Hood. Well, that's the image I conjure in my mind listening to this CD. Joker's Daughter is Helen Costas, a British Folk singer and on "The last laugh", she teams up with producer du jour Danger Mouse (Gorillaz, Gnarls Barkley, Beck, The Good The Bad & The Queen, Black Keys) to create an album of beautiful other-worldly music. The delicate guitars and orchestral flourishes deftly sprinkled with some electro almost Hip Hop effects, act as the perfect backdrop to her mellifluous vocals.

Interspersed among beautiful acoustic songs like the upbeat "Worm's head", the elfin-sounding "Jesse the goat" (sung in Cypriot Greek) and "Go walking" are atmospheric instrumentals like "The last laugh" (with a choir-like intro and some eerie-sounding piano), and "Chasing ticking crocodile".

Other standouts are the brief "JD Folk Blues" (with a fleeting Xylophone break), the lightly bouncy "Under the influence of Jaffa cakes" (Folk/Pop similar to Suzanne Vega's "Luka"), "Cake and July", and the dreamy "Nothing is ever what it seems" (ghostly harmonies against delicately plucked guitars), but the absolute highlight has got to be the sunny sounding "Lucid", again ghostly harmonies and ethereal spacey effects, with gently pulsing beats coming in the final minute. Danger Mouse must be commended for not over playing his hand and letting the artist take center stage, while carefully and sensitively providing support (Check out the brilliant "Dark night of the soul" by Dangermouse & Sparklehorse).

An outstanding debut. Gorgeous. Quirky. Ethereal. And simply stunning.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Vinyl, April 23, 2011

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Steve - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Last Laugh [Vinyl] (Vinyl)

Not going to review the actual album content here, it was a gift for my girlfriend. Sounds good, she loves it, and the free digital copy that you get with it is nice too.

5.0 out of 5 stars You'll love it, November 25, 2010

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Andrey Krampuls (Moscow, Russia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Last Laugh (Audio CD)

Review by my dearest wife:

I liked this album very much. Wonderful, enchanting voice of the singer, melodic songs, interesting lyrics. I had to replay it several times.