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Dalbello - Whomanfoursays (1984)

Posted By: Designol

Date: 2 Mar 2023 13:51:38

Whomanfoursays is the fourth studio album by Canadian musician Dalbello. It is Dalbello's first concept album. Lisa Dalbello describes its concept as "[a collection of] songs about relationships with people that sometimes are forced into molds, that they don't know that they can break out of. These are stories about people that are trying to become the people that they really wanna be." The album was released in 1984, which marked a change in direction in her musical career, away from the soul R&B image of her previous albums and toward a more individual and avant-garde sound. Dalbello wrote every track herself, and changed her recording name from Lisa Dal Bello to her last name only. Musician Mick Ronson, who collaborated extensively to the project, produced the album with her; all instruments were played by either or both of them. The title is a homophone for the words "human forces". The original vinyl album cover features in either black or white the name in faux Cyrillic letters; on the CD version, this was replaced with regular uppercase lettering. Lisa's face is featured on the cover in tribal warpaint.

Whomanfoursays was the result of Dalbello's collaboration with Mick Ronson, who had seen her exceptional talent and persuaded her to give music a second try after her first attempts. The resulting album is stunning for its musical and lyrical depth. Even after two decades, it is still listenable – which cannot be said for a lot of productions from the '80s with their now quite outdated synthesizer sounds. Sparse but very effective instrumentation, shrewd dynamics ("Gonna Get Close to You"), Dalbello's extraordinary voice (listen how she screams out her emotions in "Wait for an Answer"), witty observations with intelligent lyrics ("Devious Nature"), and the combined multi-instrumental capabilities of Dalbello and Mick Ronson make this album one of the records that will stand out as a very sophisticated non-mainstream rock effort with a poppish flavor. If there is a trace of weakness, it might be "Path of Least Resistance," which never seems to develop the strong focus the other tracks do, but this is only a minor complaint given the quality of the remainder of this record.

Review by Frank Eisenhuth, Allmusic.com

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Tracklist:

01. Gonna Get Close To You (4:29)
02. Devious Nature (4:01)
03. She Pretends (4:31)
04. Wait For An Answer (5:39)
05. Animal (4:01)
06. Cardinal Sin (4:06)
07. Guilty By Association (3:35)
08. Path Of Least Resistance (4:57)
09. Target (My Eyes Are Aimed At You) (6:03)

EAC log

Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 3 from 29. August 2011

EAC extraction logfile from 5. October 2014, 11:02

Dalbello / Whomanfoursays

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DR log

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log date: 2018-07-30 02:12:46

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Analyzed: Dalbello / Whomanfoursays
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Official DR value: DR12

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Channels: 2
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Codec: FLAC
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