Sweet Shadows

Daughter Darling | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 29, 2003)
• Original Release Date: July 29, 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Plain Jane Records
• ASIN: B0000AJIKI
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #174,058 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best CD I've bought in the last six months, January 3, 2005

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Justarasta (Coral Gables, FL United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Sweet Shadows (Audio CD)

In a typical year I purchase 30 or more CD's. I've gotten burned on a lot lately. This CD has been a real find and a revelation in a sea of medocrity. Forget the trip hop label, it means nothing in the context of this CD other than there is more drums and bass in the mix. There is a great variety to the music and the lead vocalist's voice is magical. All the songs, with the sole exception of a cover of "Dust in the Wind" - which is not bad but kind of strange in the context of this CD - are unique and worthwhile. If you have any doubt then download "Broken Bridge" and if you like it you will like the rest of the CD.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The future of trip-hop, October 22, 2003

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Thomas Pittman (The Hague) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sweet Shadows (Audio CD)

I first heard of Daughter Darling from www.triphop-music.com, and I'll admit I bought the CD from an indie label website to get it fast. I love trip-hop (if you accept that as meaning Portishead, Massive Attack, Lamb, early Hooverphonic, the first Goldfrapp, etc.), and this is excellent trip-hop! Daughter Darling appears to be two creative brothers (Travis & Stephen Fogelman), a DJ (Infinit), and an incredible vocalist (Natalie Walker), based in Philadelphia. The music is most like Portishead ("Let Me Speak" especially), but has a unique sound of their own. I would have to say this is the new sound of trip-hop. It flows beautifully and sadly from the first cut to the last, and I have been playing it over and over. Every song is great, but "You Won't See Me" is to me the obvious single, with stunning vocals and a cello. The only cover, "Dust in the Wind," is pretty stark and haunting compared to the original Kansas release.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars NOT LESS THAN ESSENTIAL, August 28, 2003

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:: tripofagia :: (Brasil) - See all my reviews

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I personally would not name it like that; I'd name it as the Sweetest Shadows, or Greatest Shadows. It's actually one of the most beautiful trip-hop albums I have ever heard, since I started listening to trip-hop every day, a decade ago. I dedicate a special room for this CD on my record collection, a space reserved just for essential albums, beside pearls like Dummy (Portishead), Blue Lines (Massive Attack), Who Can You Trust (Morcheeba) and Background Door (U-topia). Sweet Shadows is surely a masterpiece, a trip-hop that demonstrates the great sensibility of those behind it: Daughter Darling. There's creativity, there's poetry and over all there's trip-hop − overflowing. Are the skies the limit? It was hard to believe one could debut on the scene with that power, at least it's not easy to debut that way; and exactly because of that, there's now no reason to doubt they can be even better. The future will tell us. Yup, the future: Daughter Darling is the accurate answer to those who dare to label trip-hop as 90ies music; a beautiful answer to those who dare to say that trip-hop is something falling into decadence, as I have heard too many times. Yup Ladies and Gentlemen, trip-hop is alive and shouting out loud...