Prize (album)

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]

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

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[12]
Robert ChristgauA-[13]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[14]
Los Angeles Times[11]
Orange County RegisterA-[1]
Orlando Sentinel[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]

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] The Independent listed Prize as one of the 15 best pop albums of 1999.[17]

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" 

References
  1. Wener, Ben (October 29, 1999). "THE QUICK HIT". Orange County Register. p. F55.
  2. "Arto Lindsay by David Krasnow - BOMB Magazine". bombmagazine.org.
  3. Walls, Richard C. (Dec 1999). "Best New Music". CMJ New Music Monthly (76): 23.
  4. Kot, Greg (28 Jan 2000). "THE EVOLUTION OF AN ARTIST". Chicago Tribune. Friday. p. 7.41.
  5. Shatz, Adam (3 Oct 1999). "Downtown, a Reach For Ethnicity". 2. The New York Times. p. 1.
  6. DeRogatis, Jim (January 23, 2000). "Making the connection - Lindsay makes the jump from 'noise' to Latin". Chicago Sun-Times. Showcase. p. 12.
  7. "The Rough Guide to Rock". Rough Guides. February 19, 2003 – via Google Books.
  8. Friswold, Paul. "ARTO LINDSAY". Riverfront Times.
  9. "Review". SF Weekly. November 17, 1999.
  10. Bacon, Peter (4 Dec 1999). "ARTO LINDSAY Prize". Birmingham Post. National. p. 7.
  11. Weingarten, Marc (23 Oct 1999). "Record Rack". Los Angeles Times. Calendar. p. 18.
  12. "Prize - Arto Lindsay | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
  13. "Arto Lindsay". www.robertchristgau.com.
  14. Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 5. MUZE. p. 249.
  15. Gettelman, Parry (19 Nov 1999). "SENSUAL ARTO". Orlando Sentinel. Calendar. p. 9.
  16. Lipp, Marty (19 Jan 2000). "New Sounds". Newsday. p. C7.
  17. Walters, John L. (December 17, 1999). "Music: The best pop albums of 1999". The Independent.
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