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White Lilies Island |  | Artist: Natalie Imbruglia
Label: RCA
Category: Music
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Rating:  44 reviews
Sales Rank: 31847
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 5 x 0.4
UPC: 743219134226
EAN: 0743219134226
ASIN: B00005UBHR
Release Date: November 5, 2001
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| Tracks:
| • | That Day | | • | Beauty On The Fire | | • | Satellite | | • | Do You Love | | • | Wrong Impression | | • | Goodbye | | • | Everything Goes | | • | Hurricane | | • | Sunlight | | • | Talk In Tongues | | • | Butterflies | | • | Come September |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
IWhite Lilies Island/I comes four years after "Torn" and her debut ILeft of the Middle/I propelled her into international stardom. It took a long time to get right, and it was worth the trouble. Produced by a variety of names including Ian Stanley and Pascal Gabriel, it also includes song collaborations with Pat Leonard (co-author of key Madonna hits). IWhite Lilies Island/I has a driving, dramatic edge--particularly on the opener "That Day", and "Hurricane", a sweeping song about inexplicable passion. Natalie moves with ease between guitar-led rock and groove-orientated pop but it's obvious her heart lies with the former, particularly in the rich, freewheeling energy of tracks like "Goodbye" and "Do You Love?". --ILucy O'Brien/I
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 Paradise December 13, 2003
JR (the Netherlands)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is the best cd ever. The fact that ' White Lilies Island ' hasbrnot got much attention of the media, gives the cd an atmosphere as ifbrNatalie plays just for you. Natalie's voice is pure... and thebrsongs can be only described as pure pop! Here is a survey of all twelve songs:p#01 THAT DAY : This is a nice entrance to the cd. It grows on you after two listens. Nice arrangement, beautifully sung. It was however a mistake to release it as a single in Europe. The song is about escaping from all the pain that is in your life. 9/10p#02 BEAUTY ON THE FIRE : This song is a little dancy compared to the rest of the album, especially in it's excellent radio mix, included on the single (which also includes three amazing b-sides and the splendid video). Fresh and catchy, it is one of my favourites. 10/10p#03 SATELLITE : Quite good, but not great. It offers some fine 'Hawaiian' beats, and it is very catchy. It's feel however is quite bubblegumpoppish. 7/10p#04 DO YOU LOVE : This one was a grower for me, although the chorus is very catchy. The melody is haunting. The meaning is however quite vague, something about avoiding a person fall into chaos. 8/10p#05 WRONG IMPRESSION : Ah, the album version of the UK #10 song. It's different from the radio mix which is heard in the video, less catchy. Don't play it too often, if you don't want it to become dull. 7/10p#06 GOODBYE : This song is very very great. Depressive but great. As it builds tension, the sound becomes much rockier. The song is, yes, about saying goodbye. 9/10p#07 EVERYTHING GOES : Another good song, has a nice 'paradise' feel, is however somewhat unremarkable among the other songs. 8/10p#08 HURRICANE : Slow and beautiful. "You're all that I could be/And I'm falling on my knees", you are likely to play this song every time you play the cd. 9/10p#09 SUNLIGHT : Another favourite, could have been a single. Very catchy and grown-up, respected the lyrics: Natalie tells us to enjoy the small good things in life, like sunlight on your face. She is right. 10/10p#10 TALK IN TONGUES : An amazing song, with some nice vocals (especially when singing "Crying like a baby"). Not very catchy. 9/10p#11 BUTTERFLIES : As 'White Lilies Island' fades to an end, the songs build more and more melancholy and maturity. Like 'Goodbye', the sound becomes fuller towards the end. I don't know why not many people like it. It rocks. 10/10p#12 COME SEPTEMBER : Everybody is holding his breath for this. A song full of hope, with a fantastic orchestral arrangement. 10/10pAverage: 8.83/10. That's five stars! If you don't already have it, you should go buy it immediately!
Excellent album July 24, 2005
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
When I first heard this album I was a little disappointed. I thought the songs were bland. However, this is the kind of album that will grow on you and after listening to it about 4-5 times, you will begin to fully appreciate the passion that's gone into it. The songs are very clever and very grown up. They may not be catchy but it's normally the catchy songs that become boring and dull later, whereas these songs become better after each listen. Well done to Natalie for choosing an album with songs from the heart rather than just choosing a load of pop rubish that will do well in the charts for the ignorant masses like a lot of other pop stars do.pBeauty on the fire, Do you love, Sunlight, Wrong Impression, Talk in tounges, Goodbye and Hurricane are the best songs on the album.pGive this a try, it should never have flopped it's a work of art.
great second album September 16, 2001
22 out of 25 found this review helpful
Following up her brilliant debut album Left of the Middle, which was a huge success critically and commercially, was never going to be an easy task for Natalie Imbruglia. But refreshingly for a soap-star turned singer, she took her time and thought long and hard before following up her first offering.p45 songs and 4 years later, Imbruglia has hand picked 12 to appear on White Lilies Island. She points to groups such as Travis, Radiohead, and Coldplay as her influences this time, as opposed to the more feminine influences of Left of the Middle. Not that's you'd necessarily notice--the album has its own sound entirely, largely thanks to Imbruglia's divine voice which comes shining through all the tracks, but also thanks to her movement on the album towards the sound of her B sides from her previous releases (try Diving in the deep end and Something Better on her old single releases for a taster of what's to come on White Lilies Island). It's all a recognisable development from Imbruglia past, but is surprising enough never to bore.pThe CD opens with a great piece of guitar and strings based rock/pop, which is also her first single release from the album: That Day lets us know that Imbruglia's not just out to recreate her smash hit Torn in as many was as she can. On the contrary, this song shows a touching self awareness, and a fragility that seems surprisingly genuine. Here sings a lady with many superficial reasons to be happy (money, looks, a voice to die for...), but who instead chooses to smile at the chaos and peculiarities of life: that day, that day, what a marvellous mess... sad, scared, alone, beautiful, it's supposed to be like this, I accept everything: it's supposed to be like this... and I'm tired, and I'm right, and I'm wrong, and it's beautiful.pThis frailty and emotional nakedness continues in the same totally believable way into Wrong Impression, which in its uncomplicatedness shows how Imbruglia's songs are good songs, and not just good 'tracks': they don't rely on clever production or over-layered collage-ing of sounds. Which is not to suggest the album is under developed acoustically, nor is it totally introspective or navel-gazing. Beauty on the fire and Everything goes are both beautifully produced tracks, with a big sound (strings and all) entirely suitable for their analytical subject matters.pSatellite might sound a bit like Jewel-meets-Alisha's Attic, but as ever Imbruglia has brought plenty of her own personality to this love song. No new thinking here, nor vocal or lyrical gymnastics, but this simplicity is what makes the song work: it's in the non verbal do do do do do da do da and shaba da da da-da lines that she gets across the true emotion of the song.pPerhaps most spectacular is Imbruglia's use of the conceit, and her mastering of the memorable and sometimes surprising musical 'hook'. The stand out track of the album, Goodbye, is a perfect example. It's a gorgeous but tragically sad song, which is at once a vehicle for her exquisite voice (here haunting us, almost crying the lyrics), but also her poignant lyrics: but they tell me I'll be fine / That it will all get better. / Just try to write it down / Or put it in a letter. / But the words won't play, / And there's no easy way to say / Goodbye. The music is again perfect-- shifting mood as her thoughts do so-- and the over all sound is just right. This is by far the best track (positioned suitably exactly mid-album), with all of the best Imbruglia features presented together at once: the voice, the emotion, the careful lyrics with their matching melodic shifts, all designed to make just the right bits stay in the listener's mind. pThere isn't really a track you'll skip over regularly. You might want to listen to one that suits your mood at a particular moment-- and if that's your style you'll be pleased to have one to suite most moods-- but the album plays through pretty well too, holding itself together competently. Perhaps notable for a closing mention would be Come September, which combines beautifully Imbruglia's dreamy vocals with a partly mechanical instrumental sound that conjures up a strangely modern make-believe world of fairy tale well suited to the twenty-first century. We find ourselves in a brave new world: a slightly jaded place, a place where as the passion dies her magic heart will break, but where everything wrong gonna be alright. That place, where we realise nothing's quite what we thought it was, but where there's beauty none the less in that discovery, is called White Lilies Island.
Brilliant, more mature second album September 12, 2001
26 out of 30 found this review helpful
Following up her brilliant debut album Left of the Middle, which was a huge success critically and commercially, was never going to be an easy task for Natalie Imbruglia. But refreshingly for a soap-star turned singer, she took her time and thought long and hard before following up her first offering.p45 songs and 4 years later, Imbruglia has hand picked 12 to appear on White Lilies Island. She points to groups such as Travis, Radiohead, and Coldplay as her influences this time, as opposed to the more feminine influences of Left of the Middle. Not that's you'd necessarily notice--the album has its own sound entirely, largely thanks to Imbruglia's divine voice which comes shining through all the tracks, but also thanks to her movement on the album towards the sound of her B sides from her previous releases (try "Diving in the deep end" and "Something Better" on her old single releases for a taster of what's to come on "White Lilies Island"). It's all a recognisable development from Imbruglia past, but is surprising enough never to bore.pThe CD opens with a great piece of guitar and strings based rock/pop, which is also her first single release from the album: That Day lets us know that Imbruglia's not just out to recreate her smash hit Torn in as many was as she can. On the contrary, this song shows a touching self awareness, and a fragility that seems surprisingly genuine. Here sings a lady with many superficial reasons to be happy (money, looks, a voice to die for...), but who instead chooses to smile at the chaos and peculiarities of life: that day, that day, what a marvellous mess... sad, scared, alone, beautiful, it's supposed to be like this, I accept everything: it's supposed to be like this... and I'm tired, and I'm right, and I'm wrong, and it's beautiful.pThis frailty and emotional nakedness continues in the same totally believable way into "Wrong Impression", which in its uncomplicatedness shows how Imbruglia's songs are good songs, and not just good 'tracks': they don't rely on clever production or over-layered collage-ing of sounds. Which is not to suggest the album is under developed acoustically, nor is it totally introspective or navel-gazing. "Beauty on the fire" and "Everything goes" are both beautifully produced tracks, with a big sound (strings and all) entirely suitable for their analytical subject matters.p "Satellite" might sound a bit like Jewel-meets-Alisha's Attic, but as ever Imbruglia has brought plenty of her own personality to this love song. No new thinking here, nor vocal or lyrical gymnastics, but this simplicity is what makes the song work: it's in the non verbal "do do do do do da do da" and "shaba da da da-da" lines that she gets across the true emotion of the song.pPerhaps most spectacular is Imbruglia's use of the conceit, and her mastering of the memorable and sometimes surprising musical 'hook'. The stand out track of the album, "Goodbye", is a perfect example. It's a gorgeous but tragically sad song, which is at once a vehicle for her exquisite voice (here haunting us, almost crying the lyrics), but also her poignant lyrics: "but they tell me I'll be fine / That it will all get better. / Just try to write it down / Or put it in a letter. / But the words won't play, / And there's no easy way to say / Goodbye". The music is again perfect-- shifting mood as her thoughts do so-- and the over all sound is just right. This is by far the best track (positioned suitably exactly mid-album), with all of the best Imbruglia features presented together at once: the voice, the emotion, the careful lyrics with their matching melodic shifts, all designed to make just the right bits stay in the listener's mind. pThere isn't really a track you'll skip over regularly. You might want to listen to one that suits your mood at a particular moment-- and if that's your style you'll be pleased to have one to suite most moods-- but the album plays through pretty well too, holding itself together competently. Perhaps notable for a closing mention would be "Come September", which combines beautifully Imbruglia's dreamy vocals with a partly mechanical instrumental sound that conjures up a strangely modern make-believe world of fairy tale well suited to the twenty-first century. We find ourselves in a brave new world: a slightly jaded place, a place where "as the passion dies her magic heart will break", but where "everything wrong gonna be alright". That place, where we realise nothing's quite what we thought it was, but where there's beauty none the less in that discovery, is called White Lilies Island.
White Lilies Island rocks! September 25, 2001
Rodrigo Medina (Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro Brazil)
18 out of 22 found this review helpful
White Lilies Island is like a dream coming true for all natalie fans. After the great success of Left if the middle in 98, I was expecting nat's second album. It took a long time to finally listen to her new songs, but all I can say is that this new CD is great!pThe first single that day surely has the potencial of a big hit, like torn. In this song, natalie doesn't sing, but actually speaks, expressing her human emotions, her feelings of loneliness, depression. It is great because it ends with a positive message, since it shows there's a light at the end of the tunnel, no matter what you go through.pWrong Impression is one of my favorite songs. It is really cheerful and has a nice melody. The chorus is good and sticks to your mind like a gum. Whenever I'm driving, I remember it. Didn't wanna leave you with a wrong impression. All I wanna do is try to make a connection!pBeauty on the fire is natalie's typical song. I don't know if other fans will agree, but this song is more like big mistake or even wishing I was there from the first album. Great lyrics.pSatelitte is my favorite so far! It's so good! Natalie sings as a little naive girl. This rhythm is differen from everything she has recorded. Satelitte is the kind of song you will want to listen to when you're feeling exhausted after a busy day at work. It's simple, pure and written in a vert direct language. I love her vocals improvisations!pDo you love is cool, and some people are already saying she sounds like madonna in this track. I don't think so. It's a sad melody which makes you reflect about your own life and the things you believe that worth. Good chorus.pGoodbye is a ballad and reminds me of smoke from LOTM. Natalie's voice is very sweet in this track and I believe it was even modified in some parts of it. pHurricane, butterflies and come september are also good and will praise all kinds of listeners.pFinally, I'd make a few comments about talk in tongues. If you are a true fan, you must love this song as much as I do. During the time natalie was not recording, this song was my hope she would come back with something new and different. I listened to the live version of this song and fell in love with it since the first time. I'm glad it was included in White Lilies Island and I hope nat releases it as a single.pAs a fan, I could recommend this CD, only because natalie recorded it. But I really believe it is great, even if you did not like Left if the middle. Natalie is a great singer and wrote almost all the songs of this album, which is a celebration of good music.
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