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It takes a moment to realize just how long it took for Nelly Furtado to deliver a full-fledged follow-up to her blockbuster 2006 makeover Loose. That Timbaland-assisted shift toward the club arrived six years after her 2000 debut, and that's precisely the gap of time between Loose and its 2012 follow-up The Spirit Indestructible. Furtado wasn't exactly quiet during those six years -- halfway through she released the excellent Mi Plan with the Latin market in mind -- but it certainly can't be said that she capitalized on the smash success of "Promiscuous" and "Man Eater," so it shouldn't exactly come as a surprise that The Spirit Indestructible doesn't precisely play as pop, even if it has plenty of heavy, window-rattling beats and bass. After the big breakthrough of Loose, she's reluctant to leave the club behind -- she works heavily with Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins, brings Nas in for a cameo, and tries desperately to write a slamming single in "Big Hoops (Bigger the Better)," but she comes up far short, stumbling over its heavy-footed hook. Whenever Furtado takes a bold stab at re-creating the slinky success of "Promiscuous" she stumbles, veering toward the eerily melancholic, never quite delivering the hedonistic abandon she teases. Elsewhere, this meditative instinct serves The Spirit Indestructible quite well, creating a curiously shimmering electronic folk-rock that floats tenuously between its two extremes, a tension that invigorates such tracks as the closing "Believers (Arab Spring)." Clearly, The Spirit Indestructible is intended as a hybrid of the introspection and restless adventure of Folklore and the savvy stylist of Loose, an ambitious and difficult prospect to be sure, so it's not entirely a surprise that Furtado isn't entirely successful; at times, the album is more impressive for what she intends to achieve than what she accomplishes. And yet for all its contradictions and clumsiness, it's hard not to admire The Spirit Indestructible, for it is that rare thing: a major-label album that bears the unmistakably messy, human stamp of an artist.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
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Rodney Jerkins, Producer - Nelly Furtado, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - R Jerkins, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2012 Interscope Records/Mosley Music Group LLC
Rodney Jerkins, ComposerLyricist - Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins, Producer - Nelly Furtado, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2012 Interscope Records/Mosley Music Group LLC
Rodney Jerkins, Producer - Nelly Furtado, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - R Jerkins, ComposerLyricist - N. Warren, ComposerLyricist - Ace Primo, FeaturedArtist
℗ 2012 Interscope Records/Mosley Music Group LLC
Rodney Jerkins, Producer - Nelly Furtado, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - R Jerkins, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2012 Interscope Records/Mosley Music Group LLC
Nasir Jones, ComposerLyricist - Nelly Furtado, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - SALAAM REMI, ComposerLyricist - Nas, FeaturedArtist - SalaamRemi.com, Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2012 Interscope Records/Mosley Music Group LLC
Rodney Jerkins, Producer - Nelly Furtado, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - R Jerkins, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2012 Interscope Records/Mosley Music Group LLC
Sara Tavares, FeaturedArtist - Hernst Bellevue, ComposerLyricist - Nelly Furtado, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - SALAAM REMI, ComposerLyricist - SalaamRemi.com, Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2012 Interscope Records/Mosley Music Group LLC
Rodney Jerkins, Producer - Nelly Furtado, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - R Jerkins, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2012 Interscope Records/Mosley Music Group LLC
Rodney Jerkins, Producer - Andre Lindal, ComposerLyricist - Nelly Furtado, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - R Jerkins, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2012 Interscope Records/Mosley Music Group LLC
Nelly Furtado, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Michael Angelakos, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Chris Zane, Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2012 Interscope Records/Mosley Music Group LLC
Nelly Furtado, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - SALAAM REMI, ComposerLyricist - SalaamRemi.com, Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2012 Interscope Records/Mosley Music Group LLC
Bob Rock, Producer - Nelly Furtado, Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Rick Nowels, Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2012 Interscope Records/Mosley Music Group LLC
DISC 2
Rodney Jerkins, Producer - Nelly Furtado, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - R Jerkins, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2012 Interscope Records/Mosley Music Group LLC
Nelly Furtado, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Fraser T. Smith, Producer - Rick Nowels, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2012 Interscope Records/Mosley Music Group LLC
S. McGregor, ComposerLyricist - Nelly Furtado, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Di Genius, Producer
℗ 2012 Interscope Records/Mosley Music Group LLC
John Shanks, Producer - Nelly Furtado, MainArtist - Dylan Murray, FeaturedArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2012 Interscope Records/Mosley Music Group LLC
Nelly Furtado, Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - The Kenyan Boys Choir, FeaturedArtist - The Demolition Crew, Producer
℗ 2012 Interscope Records/Mosley Music Group LLC
Nelly Furtado, Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - The Kenyan Boys Choir, FeaturedArtist - The Demolition Crew, Producer
℗ 2012 Interscope Records/Mosley Music Group LLC
Nelly Furtado, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - SALAAM REMI, ComposerLyricist - SalaamRemi.com, Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2012 Interscope Records/Mosley Music Group LLC
Albumbeschreibung
It takes a moment to realize just how long it took for Nelly Furtado to deliver a full-fledged follow-up to her blockbuster 2006 makeover Loose. That Timbaland-assisted shift toward the club arrived six years after her 2000 debut, and that's precisely the gap of time between Loose and its 2012 follow-up The Spirit Indestructible. Furtado wasn't exactly quiet during those six years -- halfway through she released the excellent Mi Plan with the Latin market in mind -- but it certainly can't be said that she capitalized on the smash success of "Promiscuous" and "Man Eater," so it shouldn't exactly come as a surprise that The Spirit Indestructible doesn't precisely play as pop, even if it has plenty of heavy, window-rattling beats and bass. After the big breakthrough of Loose, she's reluctant to leave the club behind -- she works heavily with Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins, brings Nas in for a cameo, and tries desperately to write a slamming single in "Big Hoops (Bigger the Better)," but she comes up far short, stumbling over its heavy-footed hook. Whenever Furtado takes a bold stab at re-creating the slinky success of "Promiscuous" she stumbles, veering toward the eerily melancholic, never quite delivering the hedonistic abandon she teases. Elsewhere, this meditative instinct serves The Spirit Indestructible quite well, creating a curiously shimmering electronic folk-rock that floats tenuously between its two extremes, a tension that invigorates such tracks as the closing "Believers (Arab Spring)." Clearly, The Spirit Indestructible is intended as a hybrid of the introspection and restless adventure of Folklore and the savvy stylist of Loose, an ambitious and difficult prospect to be sure, so it's not entirely a surprise that Furtado isn't entirely successful; at times, the album is more impressive for what she intends to achieve than what she accomplishes. And yet for all its contradictions and clumsiness, it's hard not to admire The Spirit Indestructible, for it is that rare thing: a major-label album that bears the unmistakably messy, human stamp of an artist.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
About the album
- 2 disc(s) - 19 track(s)
- Total length: 01:14:22
- Main artists: Nelly Furtado
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Mosley - Interscope
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
© 2012 Interscope Records/Mosley Music Group LLC ℗ 2012 Interscope Records/Mosley Music Group LLC
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