Jet Noir - Emotional Chess
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Jet Noir is an artist who still remains an unknown quantity to the fans of electronic music, even though she's a back-up voice in "Naked Lunch". Is she equally successful in her individual venture? Admittedly, she's got a great musical talent and an aptitude for putting emotions into words. She can perfectly outline a story and the feelings it stirs.
After having listened to "Emotional Chess" one might feel as if he moved to an alternative space. Unique sounds and an artful hybrid of such genres as trance, dubstep and electro interlaced with an ethereal voice of the singer kind of demarcate boundaries of a realm wrapped in darkness. One can draw a parallel between it and Lewis Carroll's Wonderland save for emotions and feelings that are villains here instead of creatures as in the latter.
"Big Shot" is the opener of the album. It starts off with a tuneful and rhytmical intro soon broken by an abrupt emergence of an inexorable vocal filled with pretence. The next two songs: "Deep Dark Place" and "Doesn’t Matter Anymore" do not vary much from the first one in their structure, what is rather tiresome in the long run. "Dreaming of more", "Just press play" or "Let us play" don't add anything fresh too. It's not until the title song "Emotional Chess" comes up when the album's generic canon eventually gets broken away from, however, not as far as one would expect from a leading song. What's characteristic of it are the driving melody, breakdowns and some unexpected stops. An attentive listener will easily pick up the line "You’re not worth it, boy – don’t wanna be your toy!" repeated all over again making it hard not to join in the chant.
Despite its shortcomings the track still deserves to be labelled as catchy. The ones that seem fit to compete for the gem of the album title are, depending on the listener's taste, a bit psychedelic and energetic, showing a strong and forceful rhythm "Inhale, Exhale"; an especially tuneful and standing out from the rest with its gentleness "Like a circle" or the album's promotional single "The Scarlet Woman", with a deep and meaningful message.
It's good to tear yourself away from the media hustle once in a while and listen to this kind of expressing one's feelings. I say it will especially appeal to women with guts, women that hold independence in high regard. Will it also find favour with the male half of the listeners? It's hard to say for sure, although granted is they won't find any kind of 'heavy beat' in these songs. Anyway, it's worth to listen them through to mould your own attitude towards novelties in the music industry, which Jet Noir undeniably is.
Tracklist:
01. Big Shot
02. Deep Dark Place
03. Doesn’t Matter Anymore
04. Dreaming of more
05. Emotional Chess
06. I would fall
07. Inhale, Exhale
08. Just press play
09. Let us play
10. Like a Circle
11. Spiritual Decay
12. The Scarlet Woman
After having listened to "Emotional Chess" one might feel as if he moved to an alternative space. Unique sounds and an artful hybrid of such genres as trance, dubstep and electro interlaced with an ethereal voice of the singer kind of demarcate boundaries of a realm wrapped in darkness. One can draw a parallel between it and Lewis Carroll's Wonderland save for emotions and feelings that are villains here instead of creatures as in the latter.
"Big Shot" is the opener of the album. It starts off with a tuneful and rhytmical intro soon broken by an abrupt emergence of an inexorable vocal filled with pretence. The next two songs: "Deep Dark Place" and "Doesn’t Matter Anymore" do not vary much from the first one in their structure, what is rather tiresome in the long run. "Dreaming of more", "Just press play" or "Let us play" don't add anything fresh too. It's not until the title song "Emotional Chess" comes up when the album's generic canon eventually gets broken away from, however, not as far as one would expect from a leading song. What's characteristic of it are the driving melody, breakdowns and some unexpected stops. An attentive listener will easily pick up the line "You’re not worth it, boy – don’t wanna be your toy!" repeated all over again making it hard not to join in the chant.
Despite its shortcomings the track still deserves to be labelled as catchy. The ones that seem fit to compete for the gem of the album title are, depending on the listener's taste, a bit psychedelic and energetic, showing a strong and forceful rhythm "Inhale, Exhale"; an especially tuneful and standing out from the rest with its gentleness "Like a circle" or the album's promotional single "The Scarlet Woman", with a deep and meaningful message.
It's good to tear yourself away from the media hustle once in a while and listen to this kind of expressing one's feelings. I say it will especially appeal to women with guts, women that hold independence in high regard. Will it also find favour with the male half of the listeners? It's hard to say for sure, although granted is they won't find any kind of 'heavy beat' in these songs. Anyway, it's worth to listen them through to mould your own attitude towards novelties in the music industry, which Jet Noir undeniably is.
Tracklist:
01. Big Shot
02. Deep Dark Place
03. Doesn’t Matter Anymore
04. Dreaming of more
05. Emotional Chess
06. I would fall
07. Inhale, Exhale
08. Just press play
09. Let us play
10. Like a Circle
11. Spiritual Decay
12. The Scarlet Woman
