I thought I’d do a review of a recent album purchase since I haven’t done one since the brilliant St. Elsewhere by Gnarls Barkley (Dj Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo Green) came out last year. So it’s time to get back into the swing and start to pimp things.
A few weeks ago I decided to pick up Nelly Furtado’s latest album release Loose. I do need to preference this with the fact that I’m not a big Furtado fan, however it was the only thing on the “shelf” so to speak that I could quasi-justify spending a few bucks on, (meaning more then $9.99). I hadn’t really purchased an actual CD since Beenie Man’s last release Undisputed hit back in September of ‘06.
So I opted to grab this, I put it in and gave it a listen through. Not once or twice but multiple times over the course of a few days. (Put it on my iPod and took listened to it while I was at the gym.)
If I had to sum up the entire album in one sentence it would probably just be; “S’all right.”
The overall production value is pretty high, with highlights that include the songs titled: Afraid, Promiscuous and Say It Right.
Producer credits on this album are given to: Thom Panunzio, Nelly Furtado, Danja, Nisan Stewart, Lester Mendez, Rick Nowels and Timbaland.
(Some might know that Timbaland is currently in a “legal tussle” over his sampling of a Commodore 64 line by a Finnish composer for the song he helped to produce for the Loose album entitled Do It.)
The album taken on a whole is pretty much like I said previously, just all right. However with a few standout tracks that include the huge single Promiscuous it’s definitely an album worth checking out for any Furtado fans. If you’re on the fence or just unsure I’d say just pick up the singles since that’s probably all you’d listen to any ways.
