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Donkey | 
 enlarge | Artist: Css
Label: Wea
Category: Music
List Price: £14.99
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 1329
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 5051442898323
ASIN: B001B0DUWI
Release Date: July 21, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Jager Yoga | | • | Rat Is Dead (Rage) | | • | Let's Reggae All Night | | • | Give Up | | • | Left Behind | | • | Beautiful Song | | • | How I Became Paranoid | | • | Move | | • | I Fly | | • | Believe Achieve | | • | Air Painter |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
In the run up to the release of Donkey, second album by Brazilian electro-pop hedonists CSS, there was talk in interviews of their desire to become more professional and indeed to be seen doing so after the immense success of their haphazard debut--to such an extent that it led to Ira Trevisan's being pushed from the group when she chose to learn French and design clothes ahead of formally brushing up her rudimentary bass guitar skills in between albums. To anyone already swept up by CSS's giddy, ramshackle blitz of the world's festivals and clubs over the last couple of years though, that plan sounded as rational as enforcing less movement on dance floors. Thankfully they've clung to many of the feisty characteristics and flourishes that made them a ball of elastic irresistibility in the first place, even allowing for regimentation and grown-up production values. The pigeon-English aerobic poetry (in that it rhymes) remains and is as blindly motivational as ever, while Lovefoxxx's endearingly eager squeals and quasi-raps keep the spirit well afloat. The tight guitar lick and infectious new-wave choruses of "Rat Is Dead (Rage)" and "Give Up" are vintage Elastica, "Left Behind" is all Heaven 17 synth-pop with a vibrant tropical kick and the 80s Madonna meets Daft Punk smoothness of "Move" is a spotless delight. While the vaguely anarchic glee of their debut is largely bleached out, one positive repercussion is that filler went with it. --James Berry
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
 Just as brilliant as their eponymous debut November 25, 2008
Boof
I don't really understand why this album received such an under-whelming response, unlike their debut which was welcomed as the best thing since sliced bread. I love Donkey just as much as their first offering - it's more grown up, more honed and you can tell that as a band they've grown in confidence. I can't understand how one person said that 'the party is over' ...I'm listening to the album right now and it's just as lively and infectious as their first. It's such a shame that Donkey has been poorly rated by many rewiers in the press and online, because this album is just full of brilliance - how anyone cannot love 'Move', 'Left Behind', 'Air Painter' and, frankly, every track is totally beyond me! I'd suggest to any CSS fans who are wary of Donkey to ruddy buy it and discover its magic.
More polished and poppy follow up September 30, 2008
Mr. M. Hopewell (Birmingham, UK)
On first listen I thought this album was ok but nothing spectacular. A few listens later and once I had got the sound of the first album out my head I really got into it. It is certainly more polished than their debut and it is more poppy but the end result is a collection of fantastic pop songs.
The album reminds me of The Sounds and Metric but retains something that is definately CSS.
...and I had a crush on the bass player... September 11, 2008
Mark C. Danzig lll (Seattle, WA United States)
or at least I think thats who she was -slight dour look, slim tallish dark hair "moody"
Damn
Great! August 19, 2008
Jon Turner (Bradford on Avon, UK)
Well I have to agree with Hot Angel and say that the number of bad or indifferent reviews I've read for this album in the press do not do it justice. The new material is great, and the added production polish does not detract from the quality of the songs or the CSS sound. Ignore the naysayers - if you like CSS and the first album then buy this one too!
Surprisingly good August 10, 2008
I. Hussain (Leeds, England)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
After their fantastic first album, i was wondering how CSS would follow it up. New rave is over and one of its biggest purveyors needed to step up.
The album is a bit slicker & definitely more "produced", however there is still a playful nonchalance about many of the songs. Anyhow, it was always going to be difficult being as playful as 'Meeting Paris Hilton' from the first album.
Donkey is easy to listen to and has plenty of songs that will get stuck in your head. Highlights include 'Jager Yoga', 'Move' & 'Believe Achieve'. A decent follow-up from a really good band. Worth a buy.
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