Nico & Vinz | Black Star Elephant

[Fancy]

their debut album (outside of norway), set for release on september 16th (US)/ september 22nd (US), is now available for preorder on itunes. 

 

track list: 

1. [intro] 

2. am i wrong 

3. last time 

4. [leave us] 

5. know what i'm not 

6. miracles 

7. [new in town] 

8. my melody 

9. [powerful] 

10. another day 

11. people 

12. runnin' 

13. imagine 

14. homeless 

15. [lakota] 

16. thought i knew 

17. [arrival] 

18. when the day comes 

19. [kokadinye] 

20. imaa imaa

pissing me off that it won't let me center all of this though..

[Live Your Life]

This album should have been out earlier this summer. Nonetheless, I'm interested in hearing it.

[Fancy]

so the pre-order got removed and replaced by the original single?

[Active Aggressive]

Damn. If it weren't for Pulse, I would never know who some of these artists are. I came into the thread expecting to read about some ratchet, Southern rap duo.

[ILLUSION]

I'm kinda excited to hear this if the songs are similar in feel to "Am I Wrong"

[Fancy]

release pushed back to october 14. "in your arms" now available on itunes.

[Live Your Life]

[Fancy]

suuuuuper late on this lol but in case anyone missed it, "in your arms" is their next single going for pop adds on the 23rd. music vid:

[Flip]

Apparantly, this is the new single? :)

[SHOOTER]

Projected to debut with 6-8k.

[Live Your Life]

Awful numbers. This album should have been released in the summer.

All Music gives the album 3/5 stars:

Afro-beat pop by way of Norway, Nico & Vinz deliberately blur cultural and musical boundaries on their 2014 debut, Black Star Elephant. Such happy disregard for genres is the secret to the duo's appeal, as is how they emphasize hooks above all else. Usually, the rhythms are too streamlined and club-ready to be called polyrhythms, although they certainly exuberantly percolate in the fashion Westerners associate with African drums. They're there for color as much as they are for dancing because the emphasis is on the insouciant breeziness of their light-as-a-feather melodies and harmonies. Often, as on the global smash single "Am I Wrong," they recall nothing so much as a Europop variation of Bruno Mars' interpolation of Sting, who himself often dabbled in multicultural musical adventures, which means Nico & Vinz provide an odd squaring of a circle: they're interpolating an interpolation of an interpolation. Far from diluting the pleasures of Black Star Elephant, this cultural disconnect enhances them because it emphasizes how, at their core, Nico & Vinz are lite bubblegum worldbeat pop, and will try on any fashion just as long as it might bring them a hit.

I don't like the album at all. There's something very cheesy about it.