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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0094637546628
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Label: Capitol Records
Manufacturer: Capitol Records
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Capitol Records
Release Date: January 30, 2007
Sales Rank: 603
Studio: Capitol Records
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Album Description:
Japanese version of her debut album includes two bonus tracks, 'Cheryl Tweedy' and 'Absolutely Nothing'. Debut album by this critically adored British female pop vocalist. 13 tracks including the single 'Smile'. It's been a whirlwind couple of months for Lily Allen. After signing a low key deal with Regal, late last year, no one could have predicted how quickly she'd make an impression on the nation. Lily, like many artists, started posting tracks on her Myspace site in November 2005, so she could gauge what people thought. The response has been phenomenal. Listens on her Myspace site now are staggering, over 2 million and rising. The support from the press, radio and TV has been fantastic. She is already a 'red top' favorite with her honesty and sharp tongue, but also has fans across the digital world and within cult publications. Regal. 2006.
From Amazon.co.uk:
Being, as she is, the daughter of prominent British actor Keith Allen, the cynics could easily dismiss the rise of Lily Allen as an act of backroom nepotism, a talent-free starlet helped to the stage by the right connections. But one listen to her debut album Alright, Still dispels any doubts about young Ms. Allen's star quality. Possessed of a feisty wit and taste for urban storytelling that should see her compared to Mike "The Streets" Skinner, these 11 tracks of sunshine-friendly reggae-pop cover topics including frustrating potential closing-time suitors ("Knock 'Em Out"), being happy when your ex is having a bad time ("Smile"), and having a little brother who likes a bit of a smoke--and not just of the tobacco variety ("Alfie"). Wisely, however, Allen doesn't let the grittiness of the subject matter tarnish the golden pop suss of the songs, a suite of gleaming productions by names including Mark Ronson and Gwen Stefani collaborator Greg Kurstin that take inspiration from the lighter end of reggae and vintage rocksteady. Doubtless some corners of the press will pillory her as a poor role model, but there's an engaging honesty to the likes of "LDN"--a love song to a city filled with teenage muggers, pimps, and crack whores, narrated by someone who's cycling because "the filth took away my license." Like father, like daughter. --Louis Pattison
Average Rating: 
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I had high expectations from this album due to all the praise. She has this amazing way of putting whimsical and upbeat melodies to lyrics which are anything but. She is a new part of my musical daily diet.
Rating:  -
A Myspace glory story, Lily started posting songs on her page and become a phenomenon; though I have to think being the daughter of a well known actor in England, probably didn't hurt any promotion pocketbooks - still she deserves what she gets for coming up with not only a brilliant little album but what that is actually fun, catchy, bitter, bitchy and most importantly really original.
Combining a rocking pop backdrop, the sugary sweet melodies are the backdrop for cutting and slicing ... Read More
Rating:  -
I like almost every song on this CD, but it can nonetheless be painful to listen to because the entire album sounds distorted due to the choice made when mastering to go with loudness over quality. A shame, really ... it's a great listen otherwise.
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I was thrilled when I listened the "LDN" track from this album and I recognized the music from an old recording from Colombia, South America called "Cogeme la caña" loosely translated as "Grab my sugar cane stick" recorded in 1954 by colombian record label Discos Fuentes. [...].
Jaime Jaramillo
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In the movie SAW, the serial killer Jigsaw calls one of his victims, "Angry and apathetic, but mostly just pathetic." That description would fall pretty aptly on Lilly Allen, or at least on the character she's portraying in this album.
I don't know much about the lass, who initially caught my attention with an effortless, liquid rendition of "LDN" at the '08 Prince's Trust concert, except that she's the offspring of a very well-heeled British actor. Thus, her decidedly punkish, working ... Read More
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