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Marcella Detroit - Jewel (1994)

Posted By: Designol

Date: 18 Jun 2019 14:14:14

Jewel is the second studio album by American singer Marcella Detroit, and her first since leaving band Shakespears Sister.

Marcella Detroit's first solo album following the demise of Shakespear's Sister is actually the second solo album of her career. It is sad to say that this is somewhat of a disappointing affair. Through her work with Shakespear's Sister (especially on the second album Hormonally Yours), she demonstrated her skill at writing and performing powerful rock/pop songs. This talent is not entirely displayed on Jewel. The CD sounds formulaic and overproduced by Chris Thomas. He seems to steer Marcella into mid-'90s dance grooves, which does not always fit her own distinctive sound. It also means that her incredible guitar playing is buried in the mix. When she is left alone and not "produced," the results are stunning – her own brand of funky rock. The opening track, "Jewel," is absolutely brilliant, and the highlight of the album. It demonstrates her full vocal range (one of the best in rock) and her ability to write truly beguiling lyrics. In fact, the first four tracks on the CD show great promise; if the rest of the material was up to those standards, the CD would be brilliant. "I Believe," "Perfect World" and the wonderful "Art of Melancholy" are all powerful songs, with great melodic hooks that stick after just one listening. But then the CD slides into songs of very little interest. Her duet with Elton John (also featured on his CD Duets) is pointless, and seems pretty uninspired for a cover version. Other songs, such as "James Brown," "I Want to Take You Higher" and "Cool People," are just not very good. A disappointing CD from a very talented artist.

Review by Aaron Badgley, Allmusic.com

Marcella Detroit at Allmusic
Marcella Detroit at Wiki

Tracklist:

01. Jewel (04:12)
02. I Believe (04:51)
03. Perfect World (04:52)
04. Art of Melancholy (04:23)
05. James Brown (04:46)
06. Detroit (03:54)
07. Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing (with Elton John) (03:52)
08. I'm No Angel (04:12)
09. I Want To Take You Higher (03:28)
10. You Don't Tell Me Everything (03:36)
11. Cool People (03:32)
12. Out Of My Mind (04:21)
13. Prima Donna (01:55)

EAC log

Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 4 from 23. January 2008

EAC extraction logfile from 19. September 2008, 10:47

Marcella Detroit / Jewel

Used drive : _NEC DVD_RW ND-4570A Adapter: 0 ID: 1

Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No

Read offset correction : 48
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Installed external ASPI interface

Used output format : Internal WAV Routines
Sample format : 44.100 Hz; 16 Bit; Stereo

TOC of the extracted CD

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Range status and errors

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Peak level 97.2 %
Range quality 99.9 %
Test CRC 70165D3A
Copy CRC 70165D3A
Copy OK

No errors occurred

AccurateRip summary

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AR log

DR log

foobar2000 1.2 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2014-04-23 20:37:21

––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
Analyzed: Marcella Detroit / Jewel
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR10 -0.41 dB -12.83 dB 4:13 01-Jewel
DR10 -0.69 dB -12.86 dB 4:52 02-I Believe
DR11 -0.69 dB -13.85 dB 4:53 03-Perfect World
DR11 -1.56 dB -14.67 dB 4:27 04-Art of Melancholy
DR14 -0.24 dB -16.83 dB 4:47 05-James Brown
DR12 -0.65 dB -13.40 dB 3:55 06-Detroit
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DR11 -0.65 dB -14.11 dB 4:14 08-I'm No Angel
DR11 -0.65 dB -12.64 dB 3:31 09-I Want To Take You Higher
DR9 -0.65 dB -11.05 dB 3:37 10-You Don't Tell Me Everything
DR10 -0.65 dB -12.12 dB 3:32 11-Cool People
DR9 -0.65 dB -11.97 dB 4:24 12-Out Of My Mind
DR9 -3.39 dB -14.88 dB 1:56 13-Prima Donna
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Number of tracks: 13
Official DR value: DR11

Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 16

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