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Natalie Imbruglia - Counting Down the Days Audio CD

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Natalie Imbruglia Band: Natalie Imbruglia
Title: Counting Down the Days
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Release Date: 2005-04-11
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Starting Today 2: Shiver 3: Satisfied 4: Counting Down the Days 5: I Won't Be Lost 6: Slow Down 7: Sanctuary 8: Perfectly 9: On the Run 10: Come on Home 11: When You're Sleeping 12: Honeycomb Child

Pretty good album from Natalie Imbruglia...
I was not as impressed and felt she plays it more "safe" on this album. I think this is the weakest of her three albums. I would recommend her first album way before this one!.


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After getting married in 2003 to the Silverchair frontman, the Australian pop singer/actress seems much happier and more secure. Apparently married life suits Natalie Imbruglia. The evidence: "Counting Down the Days," her third album. Apparently the child-voiced singer is no longer "Torn," as she was in her debut, but is now "Satisfied. "

"Starting today/I'm not gonna waste another moment/Even if I had had the chance before/I would have blown it," she sings at the start of the album, over a simple, upbeat little pop tune that is half keyboard, half acoustic guitar. That note carries over to songs where she talks a lot about home, "falling apart together," and the loneliness of long-distance relationships.

Those songs give Imbruglia's music a more , not the sort of "I met a guy and I'm crazy about him" love songs. The exception is "Shiver," a catchy song obviously destined for singledom. "Cause I shiver/I just break up/When I'm near you/It all gets out of hand. " Catchy, yet rather trite.

Not every song focuses on marital bliss, however. "Satisfied" exposes worries about the future: "This knot could come undone/no matter how we try to keep it tied," she sings over a deceptively perky pop backdrop. Well, I gotta admit, who likes an all-happy collection of love songs?

It must count for something that the producer for Blur and the Doves, Ben Hillier, did work on "Counting Down the Days. " The pop songs here tend to stick to ordinary guitar riffs, many of them acoustic-based -- a nice change of pace from the majority of light pop. Additionally, they are given some bells, organs and electronic flourishes.

Imbruglia's voice hasn't changed too much -- she still has that girlish Kylie-Minogue kind of voice. Not much of a range, but not unpleasant to the ear. She's able to carry off most of the songs here, though the writing descends to unpleasantly gooey in places. "You talk so much sense/when you're sleeping"? Adoring-the-sleeping-lover songs are overdone enough, without a line like that.

Expect a happier -- yet slightly insecure -- Natalie Imbruglia in "Counting Down the Days. " Has several writing weaknesses, but a pleasant enough listen.


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