I heard Yael's song 'New Soul' in the MacBook Air commercial and thought I'd check out the album it came from. Glad I did, because I'm loving it. She's got a really pure voice, and her music is largely acoustic, but still endearingly kooky and 'offbeat' without being pretentious. She's also rather easy on the eye.....

Anyone else a fan?


New Soul


Far Far


Toxic

[Edited 10/3/08 8:48am]

deebee said:

I LOVE her. Late last year I saw her on tv doing a SOUL duet of all things with some other French artist---she can REALLY sing...SOUL music . I forget what they were covering but she had all these gorgeous inflections in her singing, I was GLUED to the tv like . She's a very versatile young woman,I'm enjoying her alot.

If I was ever to go on a shooting spree, that's the music I would be playing. I can't stand that type of music. That boring music that's supposed to be relaxing and hippy-ish. Hate it! Makes me mad instead of doing it's purpose. Along with that dreadful song "Bubbly" by Colby Caillat!

DiamondGlove said:

Aww... It's just one light and frothy song (like Prince with 'Starfish and Coffee' or something). As a one-off I think it's cute. (I might go postal if it was a whole album of the same though.....)

Ottensen said:

Funnily enough, I watched a performance on YouTube earlier today and thought she had some soul style inflections going on (especially on the 'la-la' bits). I couldn't place who it reminded me of, but it did make me wonder who her influences were.

Yup, I think she's great. I even put her in my 'Org music club mix': http://prince.org/msg/8/278892

I think the song 'Too Long' is the highlight of the album. Especially after I seen some live clips of it. She brings some weird funky electro bleep-bass line into the song, which works wonders for her sound. She is a bit sweet and a bit poppy, but I'm guessing she spices it up a bit when live.

Love to see her live. Shame she canceled the gig I had tickets for...