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3.0 out of 5 stars
A dissapointment...and a slight return., January 8, 2001
By A Customer
This review is from: Poison//La Confusion Des Genres (Audio CD)
After his extraordinary debut album, "Whiskey" and the just as good second "Tatoo", both extraordinary, J.J. Johanson flopped. He flopped mainly because he didn't know how to continue the succesful path he had run into.
The vocals in ""Poison" are as good as the ones in the two former albums. The problem, in my opinion, lies in a lack of the mood he had us accustomed to and in the drums: almost all the songs are infected with a very horible and clichéed hip-hop pattern that becomes dull and repetitive. It's a shame...and a pitty.
"La Confusion des Genres", on the other hand, is the soundtrack for a French film and in a way (constrained by the soundtrack status of the album) is a sort of comeback to the J.J. we liked in the first two albums: shadowy, minimal and intense.
Let us hope he releases a new album as promising as it deserves to be.
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