Prize (album)

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Prize
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Studio album by
Arto Lindsay
Released1999
Label Righteous Babe [1]
Producer Arto Lindsay, Melvin Gibbs, Andres Levin
Arto Lindsay chronology
Noon Chill
(1997)		Prize
(1999)		Ecomixes
(2000)

Prize is an album by the American musician Arto Lindsay, released in 1999. [2] [3] Lindsay considered it an attempt at pop music; it is one of a number of his solo albums inspired by the Brazilian music he heard while growing up in the country. [4] [5] [6]

Contents

Production

The album was produced by Lindsay, Melvin Gibbs, and Andres Levin. It was recorded in Bahia and New York. [7] Five of the songs are sung in Portuguese. [8] Vinicius Cantuaria and Skoota Warner contributed to the album; Beans rapped on "Prefeelings". [9] [10] [11]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [12]
Robert Christgau A− [13]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [14]
Los Angeles Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [11]
Orange County Register A− [1]
Orlando Sentinel Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [15]

Robert Christgau stated that the songs float by "on the sinuous current and spring-fed babble of a Brazilian groove bent, folded, spindled, and mutilated by the latest avant-dance fads and electronic developments." [13] The Riverfront Times wrote: "Sensuous and ripe, exotic and incandescent, Prize pulsates along rhythms whose headwaters are found in the airy heights of Brazilian tropicalia jazz." [8] Newsday thought that "the disc has the soft, understated swing of bossa nova—even Lindsay's occasionally skronk guitar doesn't much disturb its romantic patina." [16]

The Los Angeles Times noted that "this master alchemist likes to offset his love of lush, tropical music with sharp, modernist accents." [11] The Orlando Sentinel determined that "Lindsay's slightly out-of-focus singing has a dreamy gentleness that helps unite the strikingly disparate elements on Prize ... the bossa nova and samba prove perfectly compatible with elements of avant-electronica and obstreperous art-rock." [15] The Independent listed Prize as one of the 15 best pop albums of 1999. [17]

AllMusic wrote that "the drum'n'bass textures that lay on the surface of his last album like laminate are more fully integrated this time out: 'Prefeelings' combines a fractured breakbeat with salsa-fied acoustic guitar and saxophones." [12]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Ondina" 
2."The Prize" 
3."Pode Ficar" 
4."Prefeelings" 
5."Modos" 
6."Ex-Preguiça" 
7."Unsure" 
8."Resemblances" 
9."O Nome Dela" 
10."Tone" 
11."Interior Life" 
12."E Ai Esqueço" 

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  6. ↑ DeRogatis, Jim (January 23, 2000). "Making the connection – Lindsay makes the jump from 'noise' to Latin". Showcase. Chicago Sun-Times. p. 12.
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  12. 1 2 "Prize". AllMusic.
  13. 1 2 "Arto Lindsay". Robert Christgau.
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