Travels With Nate

I’ll admit, I enjoyed reviewing part one of the Eurovision album, you can read it here if you missed it: http://www.boozebeatsbites.com/2012/06/beats-eurovision-2012-album-part-one.html It also destroyed my soul, however, as most of the songs were so goddamn depressing. I’m hoping this isn’t the case with Disc Two. Let’s find out... Israel : Izabo – Time Wow. This is funky, really funky! I want to dance to it. The lead singer has quite an awesome voice but I really   hate the backing singers in the chorus. Iceland : Greta Salome & Jonsi – Never Forget This track has a really nice atmosphere about it. Piano, violins, big drums and a bit of synth. Greta & Jonsi are really talented singers and have a great chemistry and really work well together. I really like this song. Yeah, it’s a love song but it doesn’t sound depressing. Top marks, Iceland. Italy : Nina Zilli – L’Amore E Femmina (Out of Love) Imagine an Italian version of Amy Winehouse...

Image from: http://www.eurovisionshop.tv/en/product/media/43/434/official-2-cd-esc-2012 Ahh, Eurovision . The one time of year where loads of countries in Europe enter musical artists into a contest to see who has the best music in Europe as voted for by the people of Europe. When I first got the press release asking if I fancy reviewing this because it’ll be “fun”, I said no. I said “I’m sorry but I don’t think my readers want to read about Eurovision” but after conveying this on twitter and facebook, I had quite a few people saying I should do it. So I did. I realised that this could actually be quite a fun experiment... to test whether every county enters complete and utter shit. This is disc one: Albania : Rona Nishilu – Suus Nice Orchestral backing music but I simply cannot deal with her voice. She sounds like she’s putting way too much effort into it but getting nothing out of it. Austria : Trackshittaz – Woki Mit Deim Popo   This is what Eurov...