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Originally posted by Stevie
Well most of us are from the States.
The tracklistings are pretty much the same except Your Song and Animal are replaced with I'll Hold My Breath and Wish I Stayed on the UK version.
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Which arguably makes the album that much stronger, so I'm cool with that.
Just finished listening to all four. I'll send in my rates in a sec.
Some thoughts: VV's album was stronger than I remembered it to be, but it averaged as my lowest album by .16. La Roux sort of droned on for me, everything ran together. Provided for good cohesion, but also little shock value. I felt that aside from Bulletproof her better tracks were her "ballads" of sorts. Ellie's album was great as well, but still had some filler. My main qualm with her was that I didn't feel an emotional connection to her songs, almost as if someone else wrote them for her, but the way the tracks were crafted cut into that criticism; most everything sounded gorgeous. As for Marina, I felt it was the most impressive out of the bunch—she had many truly great alt pop tracks and you definitely believe it's her when she's ridiculing fame.