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Elle King - Love Stuff - Music Head - 04-03-2015 enters the Billboard chart this week at #45 Spotify online listen 3.0 of 5.0 by allmusic debut album best one of the year for me definite Winehouse feel on some tracks on my list artist website - http://elleking.com/ Bio - from allmusic Singer and songwriter (and occasional actor) Elle King was born Tanner Elle Schneider in 1989 in Los Angeles, the daughter of London King and Rob Schneider (the actor and comedian and former cast member of Saturday Night Live). She grew up in Ohio, and after hearing the all-girl pop-punk band the Donnas when she was nine years old, she decided she wanted to be a singer and musician. By 13 she was playing guitar, and later learned to play the banjo as well. King began street busking and gigging around New York at the age of 16, moving to Philadelphia to attend the University of Arts, majoring in painting and film. After college she spent time in Copenhagen and Los Angeles before returning to New York to settle in Brooklyn. Signing to RCA Records, she released a debut four-song EP, The Elle King EP, in 2012. A debut full-length, Love Stuff, arrived from RCA early in 2015. Album Review - from allmusic Existing at the intersection of the two major retro-roots movements of the new millennium -- the beehived, swinging '60s soul of Amy Winehouse and the bluesy roar of the White Stripes -- Elle King's debut, Love Stuff, feels like a record that should've happened prior to 2015. Surprisingly, King is the only musician to mine this territory but she's not quite stuck in the past, whether that means the 20th century source or the canny revivals of Winehouse and Jack White. She knows enough to thread in some echoes of the big-footed folk stomp of Mumford & Sons (not to mention a banjo she proudly brandishes in all her publicity material), a sound that comes to a crest on "America's Sweetheart." There, King claims she's not America's Sweetheart and she spends a good chunk of Love Stuff putting on those aggressive airs, swanning about like a spunky spitfire, a mean girl who goes where the devil don't go. A little of this rough-and-tumble schtick goes a long way, as do King's occasionally overheated vocals -- she works hard to prove she's tough and her eager swagger proves exhausting over the long haul. That said, what works on Love Stuff has considerable charm. When King walks a fine line between rock crunch and soul testifying, there's some fire: the swinging fuzz of "Ex's & Oh's," the spooky slow-grind of "Under the Influence," the blues stumble of "Last Damn Night" and "Jackson," where she ties all these sounds together. Such highlights suggests that when Elle King doesn't have to try so hard to prove her bona fides, she might wind up with a record that's hard to deny. For now, she merely has a promising debut on her hands. think this might be a single: [video=youtube;kv1gBViFIX4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv1gBViFIX4[/video] Track Listing 1. Where the Devil Don't Go 2. Ex's & Oh's 3. Under the Influence 4. Last Damn Night 5. Kocaine Karolina 6. Song of Sorrow 7. America's Sweetheart 8. I Told You I Was Mean 9. Ain't Gonna Drown 10. Jackson 11. Make You Smile 12. See You Again Elle King - Love Stuff - CRAZY-HORSE - 04-03-2015 ive put it on my list also from that one linked song...good stuff! Elle King - Love Stuff - SteveO - 04-03-2015 I also love this!!!!! Elle King - Love Stuff - jazzboCR - 05-03-2015 Mr. Erlewine at AMG (quoted above) has an excellent perspective on this artist--if this Big Voice of the 21st Century curbs her excesses, she has a brilliant future. As he said, nobody else is really doing what she does.