Love This Giant (studio album) by David Byrne & St. Vincent

Love This Giant by David Byrne & St. Vincent
Year: 2012
Release date: 2012-09-11
Overall rank: 4,704th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
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74/100 (from 81 votes)
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74/100 (from 81 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 23% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.9/100, a mean average of 74.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.8.

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Maybe the best thing David Byrne has done since Talking Heads folded. A boisterous horn dominated concoction that's strong back to front
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Lovely pop album.
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From 01/02/2013 16:04
If you're familiar with the musical styles of david byrne (of the talking heads) and st. vincent, then you may be interested to know that this album falls more in line with byrne's disjointed, funky style than vincent's melodramatic flair. While the talking heads never employed an accompanyment of horns, they work quite well here as if a heads-extension Aside from that similarity, byrne and vincent alternate lead vocals. Some songs work better than others, but none "take off" in a way a major byrne or vincent (or both) fan might anticipate with such a pairing. I'd say the Byrne-led songs are better -- they have more melodic, musical and lyrical focus ("who", "i am an ape" and "lazarus" come to mind). Cool "cool water" vocals by st. vincent on "lazarus", the album's best track.
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