Meshell's new joint drops 2day.
LOVE it already.

I just downloaded it. I love it so much! She is a musical genius!

I ordered my copy yesterday. From what I've heard so far, this is one excellent record. MeShell hasn't failed me yet. Just brilliance after another and another!

She's beautiful man. One of the most fearless artists out there.

currently love Love Me Down.

I wish she had more exposure. I didn't even know this was coming out.

Thanks!

I saw her live with another orger last year and she did an experimental punk show.

She can really cover all genres at will. The last show I had seen of her's was a subdued soul affair complete with candlelight at the tables in the club.

This show was dirty and loud. I like anything she is doing.

Here's my quick review I posted elsewhere:


Like I said earlier, if your not a fan of her "outside" stuff, stay away. Those who dig here newer stuff, rejoice, again.
I love this album. I don't often hit the repeat button for albums but this is an exception. It kinda consumes you. Then again, I'm biased. I dig her newer stuff.
For Devil Halo's, think TWHMMTMOMD mixed with Bitter. More direct and to some degree, less accessable. But all the better for it.I can't say enough about this album. For the real heads, pick this up! Music this unique and powerful is few and far between.And no I don't work for Meshell. I wish.
Btw, Love You Down the Ready For The World cover is, simply put, sublime and perfect.Def 420 friendly.
[Edited 10/6/09 15:21pm]

damn, here already!?! and I don't have extra $ I'm copin this friday though!

Funny thing is that the late Timothy White of Bilboard Magazine (back when it had some cred) was so high on Me'shell and gave her the props that NO ONE was, and he pushed her on John Mellencamp, the result "wild night" which was a total fluke going to Number 2. But goes to show, how there used to be peeps in music that actually KNEW music, not business.

Love it! Rock,Funk & Jazz...
My fav': Tie One On
Crying in your beer
Mass Transit (reminds me of Police"Regatta..." stuff!)
Blood on the curb

By the Way this album rocks & it's cool as well!!

^
Yes.
As I stated before, I can't say enough about this record. It's amazing.
I agree with The Police reference as well. I heard it in a couple of tracks.
If you dig her last 4 albums this is on par with them all. For sure.
Btw, if you can find a Best Buy that has it, it's only $9.99.

just picked this up. gonna check it out tonight.

TRON said:

Seems like a companion piece to The World Has Made Me.....

Has the Comfort Woman sound to the slow jams. Not that I dislike that but I do wish for a return to Cookie type sound.

xlr8r said:

The World Was pretty hard.

i like this one .

Love You Down, Crying In Your Beer, Mass Transit, and White Girl are my favs at the moment.

Either she's falling even further below the radar or I must not be doing my homework because (a) I didn't know she had a new album coming out and (b) I did not know she was performing in my area last night.

That being said, I'm enjoying Devil's Halo. The immediate stand out was Lola but I'm still absorbing it.

couldn't find it at Target or Best Buy and didn't really feel like driving anywhere else. maybe this weekend. really looking forward to it.

still can't find it. oh well, Rolling Stones remasters it is then

After the stream-of-consciousness wash of her past several projects, I first thought the more conventional song structures, thinner aural layers and almost punkish rawness on DEVIL'S HALO made for a sound that was too bare. But after one day, I've totally fallen in love with its accessibility and "cleaner" feel.

There's a lot to like, but my favorite points at the moment:

Tie One On: Sooo sexy for its minimal innocence. It's a darned subdued track, and there's zero sex or even an expectation of romance in it. There's just the sheer possibility that lies in meeting a new person -- and that sends my imagination soaring.

White Girl: Destined to take its place among my all-time Meshell favorites. The rhythm guitar and dub bass & percussion line are just insanity! If for no other reason, I'd buy a ticket to Meshell's latest round of gigs JUST to hear her band freak a bouncy, extended version of this song.

Love You Down (from 3:10 'til its conclusion): So-so vocals and arrangement IMHO, and I was absolutely horrified that Meshell decided not to use the thumpy bassline that Ready for the World built into the original song. But all was forgiven when she had the nerve to drop an almost chopped-and-screwed-sounding progression of their familiar Linn beat and synth line around 3:10. It's not easy to make me dance in public, but that groove is sooo slinky that I honestly had to catch myself from grinding on the bus today.

Devil's Halo: Nothing fancy, just an interlude built around a simple keyboard and acoustic guitar riff. The simplicity is gorgeous. Almost feels like a cleansing moment between emotionally heavier stuff.

Crying in your Beer: I think it takes audacity to end on a ballad -- it could make an entire album fizzle out unnoticed. But there's something almost prayerful in this song's brevity and naked plea to whomever it's directed. Most inspired use of backing vocals I've heard in a very long time.

DH is not perfect. Meshell's subject matter (self-loathing love, jaded love, jilted love, compromised love, desperate love) can get old, and certain shock phrases (which I won't give away) sometimes come off as gratuitous anymore from a woman with SUCH a huge mind. But she serves her standard fare masterfully enough, and when she does offer something new, it's rarely anything less than outstanding.

Good stuff.
[Edited 10/14/09 11:51am]

I am deeply and completely in love with this.

She sounds a bit like Sade on some of these. I'm loving this so far! Are Wendy & Lisa on this at all?
[Edited 10/9/09 0:41am]

benjaminira said:

I thought the same thing, and there ain't nothin' wrong with that!

just listened to this cuz of all you guy's endorsements . i've always kinda dug her. nothing really "grabbed" me about any of the songs in particular though, but i might bump it again. it sounded sorta interesting

Bfunkthe1 said:

I agree with the Police reference as well. And I even got shades of The Pretenders on tracks like Bright Shiny Morning.

This site has the setlist for her show in New York on October 6.

She performed Dirty Mind!

http://according2g.com/20...-ballroom/

xlr8r said:

That's what I said. This is what I wrote in another MeShell thread that didn't go anywhere:


"Bought it yesterday. Solid album, but not as spectacular as previous releases. (7 out of 10). That said, I've only listened once all the way through and it could easily grow on me.

Mellow [or should I say laid back] for the most part, and very short (which doesn't bother me). Really like the the first two songs ("Slaughter" and "Tie One On") both of which are pretty mellow. Love track 5, "Mass Transit," which is more upbeat Also liked her take on Ready for the World's "Love Me Down."

To be honest, it completely sounds like leftovers from "The World Has Made Me the Man of My Dreams" (which I totally loved), good songs that didn't quite make the cut for that album [or were simply left out becuase there was too much material]. I hear a lot of similarities in the music.

Again, solid, but not earth shattering. For an artist who often makes significant changes in direction between albums, she didn't really do so this time."

So, all I'm saying is that I really enjoy it, but it lags, for me, behind some of her other albums.

coltrane3 said:

Now that u mention it.....they do sound like something left over from those "World" sessions.

I'm surprised she would do a cover of Ready for the World.