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Is This Real? (lisahall album)

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Is This Real?
Studio album by
Released15 September 1998 (1998-09-15)
GenrePop rock, electronica
LabelReprise[1]
Producer

Is This Real? is the debut album by British band lisahall.[2][3] It was released by Reprise on 15 September 1998.

Critical reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[4]
Entertainment WeeklyB[5]

The Santa Fe Reporter praised the album, calling its music "a dark, hook-laden brand of pop-rock, dipped in menace and swirled through a somnambulist, druggy sensibility."[6] AllMusic wrote that when the band "hook onto a killer groove, like they do on the sweetly biting 'Comatose,' their pop aptitude overrides their electronic one with a shimmering enthusiasm that's positively catching."[4] Entertainment Weekly wrote that a couple of songs "merge trip-hop dance grooves and loopy shape-shifting to Hall’s girlishly appealing voice for warm, emotive pop-tronica."[5]

Track listing

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No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Comatose"Hall, Heeley, Hopkinson, Ludlam3:18
2."Connection 17"Hall, Heeley, Hopkinson, Ludlam3:52
3."Is This Real?"Hall, Heeley, Hopkinson, Ludlam4:53
4."I Know I Can Do It"Hall, Heeley, Hopkinson, Ludlam3:22
5."It Takes A Little More"Hall, Heeley, Hopkinson, Ludlam3:12
6."The Sign"Hall, Heeley, Hopkinson, Ludlam4:16
7."All I Am"Hall, Heeley, Hopkinson, Ludlam3:10
8."Chocolate"Hall,Ludlam5:34
9."Don't Want To Talk About It"Hall, Heeley, Hopkinson, Ludlam4:06
10."Secret"Hall, Heeley, Hopkinson, Ludlam4:34

References

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  1. ^ "Incoming". SPIN. SPIN Media LLC. 3 September 1998 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ "U.K.'s lisahall Makes 'Real' Debut On Reprise". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 22 August 1998 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ Mathur, Paul (27 February 1999). "Lisahall". Melody Maker. Vol. 76, no. 8. p. 32.
  4. ^ a b "Is This Real? - Lisahall | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
  5. ^ a b "Is This Real?". EW.com.
  6. ^ Prince, David (4 November 1998). "Drunk On Beauty". The Santa Fe Reporter: 83.