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Track List
01) The Show
02) Bring Me Down
03) Skipalong
04) Don't Let Me Fall
05) Anything I'm Not
06) Knock Knock
07) Dangerous and Sweet
08) Trouble Is a Friend 
09) Live Like You're Dying
10) Like a Song
11) We Will Not Grow Old
12) Force of Nature
01) The Show
02) Bring Me Down
03) Skipalong
04) Don't Let Me Fall
05) Anything I'm Not
06) Knock Knock
07) Dangerous and Sweet
08) Trouble Is a Friend
09) Live Like You're Dying
10) Like a Song
11) We Will Not Grow Old
12) Force of Nature
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First Released
2008
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Lenka is the self-titled debut album by Australian recording artist Lenka. It was released on 23 September 2008 through Epic Records. This is Lenka's first solo album after having been a member of the group Decoder Ring. The first single, "The Show", was released on 15 June 2009.
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Australian actress and children's TV presenter- turned-singer-songwriter Lenka has written an album which is a canny hybrid of Regina Spektor and Kate Nash. Trading on her reputation with the kids, Lenka's singing persona is child-like and naïve, accompanied by animated videos and adverts for craft workshops on her MySpace page. And this tweeness carries through to the music itself.
Opening track The Show features very simple chopsticks style piano opening out into a showtime celebration of catchiness, complete with trombones and choir. It's become the most played song in Vietnam this year and featured on numerous commercials and TV shows. It's easy to see its universal innocent appeal.
The more sassy Bring Me Down is introduced by a choir of Lenkas and features a badly whistled interlude, not unlike Noah and the Whale's In Five Years Time.
The album's lyrics concentrate on Lenka being a bemused young lady in today's fast moving world. But don't expect any great revelations. Just references to the, ''big bad world'', ''the sun is hot in the sky'' and such profundities as ''I will never be you, I will always be me'' or ''You turn my frown upside down''.
Overall the instrumentation and arrangement is lovely, sympathetic and subtle, like the pizzicato undercurrent on Don't Let me Fall, and the spacious Trouble is a Friend. Unfortunately there are also many 'oom-chah' piano parts that ground the songs in cliché, such as the awful Anything I'm Not.
But all's not lost. The moment which lifts Lenka up from being a cute girly singer to an actual artist comes with Like A Song. So beautiful, this is the kind of song that slows down the listener's breathing; it's drumless and expansive. There's an expectant stillness, with vibes, synthetic strings and oboe that wrap around her voice, singing a French-styled melody. This shows what is possible when she drops the rock drummer and obvious, repeated piano.
Lenka is certainly not short on radio friendliness. Listening to the entire album may be rather like eating a pound of lemon bonbons in one sitting, yet there's plenty of promise beyond the sweetness.
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Lenka is the self-titled debut album by Australian recording artist Lenka. It was released on 23 September 2008 through Epic Records. This is Lenka's first solo album after having been a member of the group Decoder Ring. The first single, "The Show", was released on 15 June 2009.
User Album Review
Australian actress and children's TV presenter- turned-singer-songwriter Lenka has written an album which is a canny hybrid of Regina Spektor and Kate Nash. Trading on her reputation with the kids, Lenka's singing persona is child-like and naïve, accompanied by animated videos and adverts for craft workshops on her MySpace page. And this tweeness carries through to the music itself.
Opening track The Show features very simple chopsticks style piano opening out into a showtime celebration of catchiness, complete with trombones and choir. It's become the most played song in Vietnam this year and featured on numerous commercials and TV shows. It's easy to see its universal innocent appeal.
The more sassy Bring Me Down is introduced by a choir of Lenkas and features a badly whistled interlude, not unlike Noah and the Whale's In Five Years Time.
The album's lyrics concentrate on Lenka being a bemused young lady in today's fast moving world. But don't expect any great revelations. Just references to the, ''big bad world'', ''the sun is hot in the sky'' and such profundities as ''I will never be you, I will always be me'' or ''You turn my frown upside down''.
Overall the instrumentation and arrangement is lovely, sympathetic and subtle, like the pizzicato undercurrent on Don't Let me Fall, and the spacious Trouble is a Friend. Unfortunately there are also many 'oom-chah' piano parts that ground the songs in cliché, such as the awful Anything I'm Not.
But all's not lost. The moment which lifts Lenka up from being a cute girly singer to an actual artist comes with Like A Song. So beautiful, this is the kind of song that slows down the listener's breathing; it's drumless and expansive. There's an expectant stillness, with vibes, synthetic strings and oboe that wrap around her voice, singing a French-styled melody. This shows what is possible when she drops the rock drummer and obvious, repeated piano.
Lenka is certainly not short on radio friendliness. Listening to the entire album may be rather like eating a pound of lemon bonbons in one sitting, yet there's plenty of promise beyond the sweetness.
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