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Ani DiFranco - To the Teeth Audio CD

A fair review of the Ani DiFranco "To the Teeth" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Ani DiFranco reviews here, or go back to the Ani DiFranco tabs.

Ani DiFranco Band: Ani DiFranco
Title: To the Teeth
Rating:
Release Date: 1999-11-16
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: To the Teeth 2: Soft Shoulder 3: Wish I May 4: Freakshow 5: Going Once 6: Hello Birmingham 7: Back Back Back 8: Swing 9: Carry You Around 10: Cloud Blood 11: Arrivals Gate 12: Providence 13: I Know This Bar

Atmospheric, Dreamy, Fierce
"I Know This Bar" has to be one of the most beautiful songs ever! The album has a pretty dark and dreary tone to it for the most part, which works really well with some of the subject matters. "To The Teeth" is another brilliant Ani album. There are also some heavier jazz influences that were hinted on "Up Up Up Up Up Up". The lyrics are top quality as usual. Amazing back up band! Amazing Woman!.


Eclectic mix of folk, funk and progressive...
Much of it is very stripped down and most of the vocals are strangely mixed below both the acoustic or electric guitar. A very eclectic mix of folk, funk and progressive. Maceo Parker is on half the album and Prince does vocals on one song. I found it a pretty mixed bag. .


Great music
However, if you've never listened to Ani before and you aren't too into nontraditional music you should start with Not a Pretty Girl, Living in Clip, or Like I Said. This is an awesome cd with some experimental tracks and some classic Ani. Little Plastic Castles is fairly accessible too. If you already know you like Ani, you should definitely have this cd. It's one of her strongest studio albums and it's very well rounded. Buy it.


Ani's Political Pride
She expresses her democratic pride and her deep, personal anger through every track. Ani DiFranco showcases her anger through her album 'To the Teeth". Her style offers the one-on-one closeness to her audience. Every lyric is fearless. This is only one of her qualities that deserves tremendous respect as an artist and as a person. "To the Teeth", the track and "Hello Burmingham" express her anger toward the world and certain political values the heaviest.

She offers a wide musical variety. She combines rock, folk, pop, and funk. Her use of woodwind and brass instruments give a new, pleasing, and evolving touch to her tracks. Her guitar efforts more than accents her musical style, she also expresses her feelings through it. Few other guitarists have mastered this difficult task. She also plays the bass, the drums, and the keyboards on many tracks brilliantly. Despite such expressed anger, her voice remains beautiful, never losing its soul for a second. Such showcased talent proves that she is one of the best musicians of today.

Sadly, she's also one of the most underrated musicians in music history. "To the Teeth" proves that she continues to evolve as an artist through every album release. This is one of her most personal albums to date. All Ani DiFranco and soft rock fans will enjoy this album. Those that like her introduced woodwind and brass instrument sound will also enjoy her newest album "Evolve". That is the next step from such style. . . wonderful as always.


ONE NIBBLE IS MORE THAN ENOUGH
On this, her 13th CD, she tries. We have been a Ani aficionado since her first self-produced CD was released too many
years go. She really tries. But Ani's stab at protest songs --- spurred by the Columbine tragedy --- are too preachy. And lacking her usual poetry, or at least the poetic justice needed to make songs of injustice ring true. We're also starting
to real annoyed with her little-girl voice, whispered to the kind of folksy strumming found in coffeehouses . We're getting old and need her to speak --- make that SING --- up.
Sorry, but we cannot sink our teeth into this one. One nibble was enough.


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