We Are Science [Enhanced]

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If her 1999 debut album reflected the post-folk, torch-singing side of ex-One Dove vocalist Dot Allison's character, this sophomore effort, We Are Science, demonstrates quite a different facet. Much of the album takes its cue from 1980s pretenders Fischerspooner or the avant electrosonics of Adult. The songs are still here, of course, with the dirgelike title track and repetitively voxed "I Think I Love You" countered by the stirring "Strung Out" and aching "Lover," both of which feature Mercury Rev's Grasshopper. But where the first album married odd collaborators with an expansive cast of musicians, this second is a more low-key affair, with Allison and Lone Swordsman Keith Tenniswood's production less acid-house than quiet-night-in-the-living-room material. --Kingsley Marshall

Product Description
The follow up to her 1999 solo debut 'Afterglow', marks Allison's return to electronic music. Dark, heavy & utterly contemporary, it's influenced as much by the Detroit Eratz Audio label's current roster as by the more classic 80's Factory sound of Joy Division & New Order. Written & produced by Allison with additional production courtesy of Dave Fridmann (the Delgados, Mercury Rev, Flaming Lips) & Keith Tenniswood (Two Lone Swordsmen). Contains three U.S. exclusive bonus tracks, 'substance' (Felix Da Housecat Remix), 'We're Only Science' (Slam remix) & 'Strung Out' (Video). Mantra. 2002.

We Are Science [Enhanced]

We Are Science,Dot Allison,Beggars UK - Ada,Alternative Pop/Rock,Pop,Rock,Rock/Pop,Trip-Hop

Average customer rating: Sophomore surprise Exotic, mystical...funky Vocally Sensual.....musically Stylish... detached, sexy, gorgeous Substance

We Are Science Dot Allison Manufacturer: Beggars UK - Ada ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Trip-Hop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Pop | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Afterglow Morning Dove White The Facts of Life Wholeness & Separation Baxter ASIN: B0000641ZS Release Date: 2002-05-27

Tracks:

1. We're Only Science
2. Substance
3. You Can Be Replaced
4. Performance
5. Wishing Stone
6. Make It Happen
7. Strung Out
8. I Think I Love You
9. Hex
10. Lover

Amazon.com

If her 1999 debut album reflected the post-folk, torch-singing side of ex-One Dove vocalist Dot Allison's character, this sophomore effort, We Are Science, demonstrates quite a different facet. Much of the album takes its cue from 1980s pretenders Fischerspooner or the avant electrosonics of Adult. The songs are still here, of course, with the dirgelike title track and repetitively voxed "I Think I Love You" countered by the stirring "Strung Out" and aching "Lover," both of which feature Mercury Rev's Grasshopper. But where the first album married odd collaborators with an expansive cast of musicians, this second is a more low-key affair, with Allison and Lone Swordsman Keith Tenniswood's production less acid-house than quiet-night-in-the-living-room material. --Kingsley Marshall

Album Description

The follow up to her 1999 solo debut 'Afterglow', marks Allison's return to electronic music. Dark, heavy & utterly contemporary, it's influenced as much by the Detroit Eratz Audio label's current roster as by the more classic 80's Factory sound of Joy Division & New Order. Written & produced by Allison with additional production courtesy of Dave Fridmann (the Delgados, Mercury Rev, Flaming Lips) & Keith Tenniswood (Two Lone Swordsmen). Contains three U.S. exclusive bonus tracks, 'substance' (Felix Da Housecat Remix), 'We're Only Science' (Slam remix) & 'Strung Out' (Video). Mantra. 2002.

Album Details

The Sophomore Album from the Former Lead Singer of the Much Loved Band One Dove. Now on the Mantra Label (Along with St. Etienne), She Has Followed Up her Debut 'afterglow' with 10 More Songs from Deep in her Soul. That Darkness is Only Too Apparent from the Moment You Put the CD in the Player. There's a Real Edge to this Record. It Might Only Be Allison's Third in Just Over a Decade, but It's Worth the Wait. By Returning to her Roots, She's Succeeded in Making a Record Totally of the Moment. A Record that Feels Like Home.

Customer Reviews:

Sophomore surprise.......2004-12-28

Dot Allison's second album is something of a surprise, partly because I didn't know she was making one and because of the album itself, and because of how much I like it. It has links with her debut, Afterglow, but it's very different too. I could see someone liking one album but not the other. Me, I like both. We Are Science has a techno, retro-'80s feel to it, and some of the electronic noises annoy me a little, but are less unsettling with repeated listenings. There are a few songs like "We're Only Science" that eschew traditional songwriting and instead repeat the title words like a mantra. So the album begins with a vocalization (an "oh" or "ah") followed by a driving beat, and the first words come nearly a minute and a half into the song. There are some other lyrics further in, but you can't understand them (at least I can't). Other songs have a more traditional verse-refrain structure, and one near the end even reminds me of something from Mazzy Star's So Tonight That I Might See. The US release comes with a video for "Strung Out" and remixes of 2 tracks that are actually very good and add something to the songs.

Exotic, mystical...funky.......2004-06-30

This is, without question, one of 2002's best releases.
After trying a pleasing, but more low-key pop sound for her first solo album, Afterglow, Dot decides to transfer to a more synthesized form of trippy expression.
All the songs carry a murky weight, but this serves to make them more intriguing as delightfully added effects and bleeps and buzzes are interspersed in the mix for hypnotic yet captivating results.
Though all the songs are outstanding, including the menacing, yet detachedly trippy opener, here are some of the main standouts, to me:

Substance - Big beats, thumping with unstoppable dancability, and Dot's voice hypnotically relating her quest for...(the title ;)...and seamlessly crooning the ultra-cool melody to carry the whole song into your brain for repeated listening.

Performance - A long sort of epically soothing yet stimulating environment of sound textures; a sort of counterpart to "Morning Sun" from Afterglow, only to an even more sophisticated level.

Strung Out - A rocking, yet mystically and reserved display of the true coolness of Allison's talents. In my opinion, it's one of the finest pop moments of the year, apart from this album as a whole.

I Think I Love You - This song manages to get away with the repetition of this single line throughout the song, over an irresistibly charged vox arrangement. Pure bliss.

These are not, necessarily the best, but some I would like to innitially reccomend!

This is a step, most definitely in the right direction for Dot Allison. I am curious how she will elaborate on it in the future.

Original, yet truly trip-hop.

Highly reccomended.

Vocally Sensual.....musically Stylish..........2003-10-29

Dot Allison has been a vocalist for the likes of "One Dove", "Death in Vegas" & guested with acts such as "Massive Attack". "We're only science" opens with the slinky pulsating electro that "Goldfrapp" used to impressive effect on her "Black Cherry" album, with throbbing synthesizers, ambitious melody & stylish string sections. Yet Allison has far more experimental potential than just performing a Electronic album, and "Strung Out", "Make it Happen" are 80's self-referential genius with Allison (thanks to ambitious production), given enough reign to breathe life into each track, embellishing each with the kind of performances that have seen her a regular vocalist for many musicians, but the highlight for me, will undoubtedly be the 3 minute staggering acoustic slide guitar performance of "Wishing Stone" that calls on nothing (apart from some rudimentary guitar strumming), to elevate Allison's voice into the premier league.

detached, sexy, gorgeous.......2003-09-05

much better than the kitschy dance pop of afterglow (which was good, don't get me wrong). i guess a lot of people don't get this, but this is a gorgeous album of soothing, distant ambient, electro infused dance rhythms, and stirring alterna rock with chunky, dark production. it takes repeated listening to reveal the subtleties that lie within, but it's more than worthwhile time spent. probably among the best five albums of 2002. those telling dot to get back on track are missing the point. eerily distant and sexy at the same time, i hope dot travels even further in this direction on her next album. i can't wait.

Substance.......2003-04-20

I bought Dot Allison's solo album "Afterglow" a few years ago. I must confess that it really didn't do anything for me. It had a few choice tracks but otherwise didn't stand out amidst my large cd collection. I found a used copy of her latest cd "We Are Science" today in the used cd bins. I must say that I like this album a lot more than her first cd. Although it has its flaws like the remix tracks of "We're Only Silence" and "Substance" (the better remixed track of the two), overall I find the cd much more compelling than what I heard on "Afterglow". The music on "We Are Science" is a pleasant mix of techno, pop, and rock. When I first read the tracklist on the back of the cd, I originally assumed that "I Think I Love You" was a cover of the very cheesy Partridge family song. Thankfully it was not. I found this cd to have some electroclash influences to it which I didn't mind considering the fact that I am not into this so-called 'electro-clash' movement. The best track on this cd I thought was "Make It Happen". I wasn't too wild about "Strung Out" with the electric guitars. Overall "We Are Science" is an enjoyable album. Not one of the best cds I have heard but it isn't bad.

Average customer rating:

Video Commander Manufacturer: Kama Kosmic Krusader ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CAF4AY Release Date: 2005-08-30

Average customer rating:

We Are Science Dot Allison Manufacturer: EMI Int'l ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Trip-Hop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Dance & DJ | Imports | Stores | Music Pop | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000068FT7 Release Date: 2002-07-16

Tracks:

1. We're Only Science
2. Substance
3. You Can Be Replaced
4. Performance
5. Wishing Stone
6. Make It Happen
7. Strung Out
8. I Think I Love You
9. Hex
10. Lover
11. Susbstance [Felix Da Housecat Remix]
12. We're Only Science [Slam Remix]

Average customer rating: strung out on dot!!! Afterglow Still Glows

We Are Science Dot Allison Manufacturer: EMI/Virgin ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0000664KN Release Date: 2002-05-21

Tracks:

1. We're Only Science
2. Substance
3. You Can Be Replaced
4. Performance
5. Wishing Stone
6. Make It Happen
7. Strung Out
8. I Think I Love You
9. Hex
10. Lover
11. Substance (Felix Da Housecat Remix)
12. We're Only Science (Slam Remix)

Album Details

The Sophomore Album from the Former Lead Singer of the Much Loved Band One Dove. Now on the Mantra Label (Along with St. Etienne), She Has Followed Up her Debut 'afterglow' with 10 More Songs from Deep in her Soul. That Darkness is Only Too Apparent from the Moment You Put the CD in the Player. There's a Real Edge to this Record. It Might Only Be Allison's Third in Just Over a Decade, but It's Worth the Wait. By Returning to her Roots, She's Succeeded in Making a Record Totally of the Moment. A Record that Feels Like Home. Includes Two Bonus Tracks by Mixed by Felix Da Housecat and Slam!

Customer Reviews:

strung out on dot!!!.......2003-06-16

Another great disc from the incomparable Dot. She basically lays all those NYC electroclash pretenders under cement with this one. She goes back to her clubby roots, obviously a big New Order fan (like, Everythings Gone Green/Blue Monday-era New Order - listen to Dot intone, gasp, chant "how does it feel" over and over- it's new order redux, its erotic, its deleriously great), she strips it down and gives us an edgy, raw, cool slice of electolife. The computerlove is tempered with some dreamy, spaced out ballads, a little acoustic guitar here and there, and then this downright spiritual finale. Dot Allison does not lipsynch! She writes great tunes, and has the sexiest ... voice out there. Afterglow is a gem too, but even she admits to it being slightly 'overproduced'. but really, they're both essential - as is One Dove's "morning dove white". WE ARE SCIENCE is a logical progression, with a nod to electo's glorious heyday.

Afterglow Still Glows.......2002-09-05

I found this album to be a little disappointing. Her first album, Afterglow, is far more soulful and memorable. Some of the songs on We Are Science remind me of the mesmerizing sounds of One Dove, but are not as satisfying to listen to.

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