Prize_(album)

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Prize (album)

1999 studio album by Arto Lindsay

Prize is an album by the American musician Arto Lindsay, released in 1999.[2][3] Lindsay considered it an attempt at pop music; it is one of a number of his solo albums inspired by the Brazilian music he heard while growing up in the country.[4][5][6]

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Production

The album was produced by Lindsay, Melvin Gibbs, and Andres Levin. It was recorded in Bahia and New York.[7] Five of the songs are sung in Portuguese.[8] Vinicius Cantuaria and Skoota Warner contributed to the album; Beans rapped on "Prefeelings".[9][10][11]

Critical reception

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Robert Christgau stated that the songs float by "on the sinuous current and spring-fed babble of a Brazilian groove bent, folded, spindled, and mutilated by the latest avant-dance fads and electronic developments."[13] The Riverfront Times wrote: "Sensuous and ripe, exotic and incandescent, Prize pulsates along rhythms whose headwaters are found in the airy heights of Brazilian tropicalia jazz."[8] Newsday thought that "the disc has the soft, understated swing of bossa nova—even Lindsay's occasionally skronk guitar doesn't much disturb its romantic patina."[16]

The Los Angeles Times noted that "this master alchemist likes to offset his love of lush, tropical music with sharp, modernist accents."[11] The Orlando Sentinel determined that "Lindsay's slightly out-of-focus singing has a dreamy gentleness that helps unite the strikingly disparate elements on Prize ... the bossa nova and samba prove perfectly compatible with elements of avant-electronica and obstreperous art-rock."[15] The Independent listed Prize as one of the 15 best pop albums of 1999.[17]

AllMusic wrote that "the drum'n'bass textures that lay on the surface of his last album like laminate are more fully integrated this time out: 'Prefeelings' combines a fractured breakbeat with salsa-fied acoustic guitar and saxophones."[12]

Track listing

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References

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    Wener, Ben (October 29, 1999). "The Quick Hit". Orange County Register. p. F55.
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    Walls, Richard C. (Dec 1999). "Best New Music". CMJ New Music Monthly. No. 76. p. 23.
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    Kot, Greg (28 Jan 2000). "The Evolution of an Artist". Friday. Chicago Tribune. p. 7.41.
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    Shatz, Adam (3 Oct 1999). "Downtown, a Reach for Ethnicity". 2. The New York Times. p. 1.
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    DeRogatis, Jim (January 23, 2000). "Making the connection – Lindsay makes the jump from 'noise' to Latin". Showcase. Chicago Sun-Times. p. 12.
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    The Rough Guide to Rock. Rough Guides. February 19, 2003.
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    Friswold, Paul. "Arto Lindsay". Riverfront Times.
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    "Review". SF Weekly. November 17, 1999.
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    Bacon, Peter (4 Dec 1999). "Arto Lindsay Prize". National. Birmingham Post. p. 7.
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    Weingarten, Marc (23 Oct 1999). "Record Rack". Calendar. Los Angeles Times. p. 18.
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    "Prize". AllMusic.
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    "Arto Lindsay". Robert Christgau.
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    Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 5. MUZE. p. 249.
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    Gettelman, Parry (19 Nov 1999). "Sensual Arto". Calendar. Orlando Sentinel. p. 9.
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    Lipp, Marty (19 Jan 2000). "New Sounds". Newsday. p. C7.
  17. [17]
    Walters, John L. (December 17, 1999). "Music: The best pop albums of 1999". The Independent.
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