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Feeling that she had perfected dreamy swirling pop with Afterglow, Dot Allison edges toward electro dance territory and beyond on her sophomore album, We Are Science, and the results are nothing short of brilliant. Working the production boards herself, with some help from Two Lone Swordsmen's Keith Tenniswood and contributors Mercury Rev and Death in Vegas, Allison looks back to Factory Records, Kraftwerk, and house music for inspiration. Alternately lush and lo-fi, the album seeks the trance-y dirges of Afterglow, but adds huge pockets of exhilarating grooves, weird throbbing beats, analog synthesizers, sweeping strings, and echoing, twinkling pianos. What's truly remarkable is that Allison is able to touch upon so many influences and skirt so many genres, but there's not an element that feels out of place. It's not just expert sequencing that holds the album together. It's Allison's fearless experimentation, genius sense of melody, urgent lyrics, and commanding vocals that make for such a winning opus. The retro touches of "Make It Happen," "Strung Out," and "I Think I Love You" honor influences from Wire to New Order to the Human League to Depeche Mode, but Allison makes the sound her own again and again. "Strung Out" sounds like Curve produced by Martin Hannett. When things turn cinematic on "Performance" and "Wishing Stone," Allison proves herself a master of atmosphere. Poetic, melodic, and pulsing with enormous amounts of energy, the album sees Allison virtually creating new genres in the process of exploring her own musical heroes. We Are Science sees Dot Allison going beyond even the highs of One Dove and crafting an accessible, evocative masterpiece that consistently surprises and thrills.
© Tim DiGravina /TiVo
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Keith Tenniswood, Programmer - Dot Allison, Programmer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Harry Fox Agency, MusicPublisher - Sony Music Ltd., MusicPublisher - CMRRA, MusicPublisher
2002 Mantra Recordings Ltd 2002 Mantra Recordings Ltd
Keith Tenniswood, Producer, Programmer, AssociatedPerformer - Dot Allison, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Harry Fox Agency, MusicPublisher - Sony Music Ltd., MusicPublisher - CMRRA, MusicPublisher
2002 Mantra Recordings Ltd 2002 Mantra Recordings Ltd
Dot Allison, Programmer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Ian Button, AssociatedPerformer - Harry Fox Agency, MusicPublisher - Richard Thair, AssociatedPerformer - Sony Music Ltd., MusicPublisher - CMRRA, MusicPublisher - David DA Stone, AssociatedPerformer - Nick Abnett, AssociatedPerformer
2002 Mantra Recordings Ltd 2002 Mantra Recordings Ltd
Dot Allison, Programmer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Harry Fox Agency, MusicPublisher - Sony Music Ltd., MusicPublisher - CMRRA, MusicPublisher - Beaumont Hannant, Engineer, Programmer - Gemma Hunter, AssociatedPerformer - Katherine Hago, AssociatedPerformer - Martha Riley, AssociatedPerformer - Victoria Mathew, AssociatedPerformer
2002 Mantra Recordings Ltd 2002 Mantra Recordings Ltd
Dot Allison, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Harry Fox Agency, MusicPublisher - Sony Music Ltd., MusicPublisher - CMRRA, MusicPublisher - David DA Stone, AssociatedPerformer
2002 Mantra Recordings Ltd 2002 Mantra Recordings Ltd
Keith Tenniswood, Programmer - Dot Allison, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Ian Button, AssociatedPerformer - Harry Fox Agency, MusicPublisher - Sony Music Ltd., MusicPublisher - CMRRA, MusicPublisher - Nick Abnett, AssociatedPerformer
2002 Mantra Recordings Ltd 2002 Mantra Recordings Ltd
Jeff Ament, AssociatedPerformer - Keith Tenniswood, Programmer - Dot Allison, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - David Fridmann, Producer - Harry Fox Agency, MusicPublisher - Sony Music Ltd., MusicPublisher - Sean Mackowiak, AssociatedPerformer - CMRRA, MusicPublisher
2002 Mantra Recordings Ltd 2002 Mantra Recordings Ltd
Keith Tenniswood, Producer, Engineer, Programmer - Dot Allison, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Harry Fox Agency, MusicPublisher - Sony Music Ltd., MusicPublisher - CMRRA, MusicPublisher
2002 Mantra Recordings Ltd 2002 Mantra Recordings Ltd
Dot Allison, Engineer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Harry Fox Agency, MusicPublisher - Richard Thair, AssociatedPerformer - Sony Music Ltd., MusicPublisher - CMRRA, MusicPublisher - Nick Abnett, AssociatedPerformer
2002 Mantra Recordings Ltd 2002 Mantra Recordings Ltd
Jeff Ament, AssociatedPerformer - Tim Holmes, MixingEngineer - Dot Allison, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - David Fridmann, Producer - Harry Fox Agency, MusicPublisher - Sony Music Ltd., MusicPublisher - Sean Mackowiak, AssociatedPerformer - CMRRA, MusicPublisher
2002 Mantra Recordings Ltd 2002 Mantra Recordings Ltd
Album review
Feeling that she had perfected dreamy swirling pop with Afterglow, Dot Allison edges toward electro dance territory and beyond on her sophomore album, We Are Science, and the results are nothing short of brilliant. Working the production boards herself, with some help from Two Lone Swordsmen's Keith Tenniswood and contributors Mercury Rev and Death in Vegas, Allison looks back to Factory Records, Kraftwerk, and house music for inspiration. Alternately lush and lo-fi, the album seeks the trance-y dirges of Afterglow, but adds huge pockets of exhilarating grooves, weird throbbing beats, analog synthesizers, sweeping strings, and echoing, twinkling pianos. What's truly remarkable is that Allison is able to touch upon so many influences and skirt so many genres, but there's not an element that feels out of place. It's not just expert sequencing that holds the album together. It's Allison's fearless experimentation, genius sense of melody, urgent lyrics, and commanding vocals that make for such a winning opus. The retro touches of "Make It Happen," "Strung Out," and "I Think I Love You" honor influences from Wire to New Order to the Human League to Depeche Mode, but Allison makes the sound her own again and again. "Strung Out" sounds like Curve produced by Martin Hannett. When things turn cinematic on "Performance" and "Wishing Stone," Allison proves herself a master of atmosphere. Poetic, melodic, and pulsing with enormous amounts of energy, the album sees Allison virtually creating new genres in the process of exploring her own musical heroes. We Are Science sees Dot Allison going beyond even the highs of One Dove and crafting an accessible, evocative masterpiece that consistently surprises and thrills.
© Tim DiGravina /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 10 track(s)
- Total length: 00:47:44
- Main artists: Dot Allison
- Composer: Dot Allison
- Label: Mantra
- Genre: Electronic
2002 Mantra Recordings Ltd 2002 Mantra Recordings Ltd
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