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Nikka Costa - Everybody Got Their Something

This is a great album that explores many different textures and genres of music. In her debut effort Nikka Costa manages to do just about everything on this album:  
 
she gets real gritty and raw on the album's opening track, "Like a Feather." The following track, which i believe is the best on the album, features Costa showing off her robust vocal range as she beautifully belts out the album's most beautiful chorus on "So I Have For You." Costa's vocals on this track give this song a snese of boundless energy and passion.  
 
"Tug of War" is a bona-fide soulfed song, as Nikka shows great vocal restraint as she slithers through the sultry stanzas of this track. Costa makes this track even more interesting by complementing the song's soulful feel with symphonic and electronic elements. The fourth track, "Everybody Got Their Something" is a track that you will like five seconds in to it. This 70's sounding track screams funk! One of the album's best tracks, this catchy tune adds another layer to this eclectic album.  
 
The next two tracks, "Nothing" and the short "Nikka What?", add extra textures as they are a beautiful ballad and a short track of record scratching, respectively.  
 
"Hope it Felt Good" is an energetic assertion of a lover left jaded. Awesome guitars on this track. Lots of very interesting instrumentation with trumpets and saxaphones in the later part of this track.  
 
"Some Kind of Beautiful" is a soulful funk track that will have you bobbin your head before you know it.  
 
"Just Because" is a slower, blues tune. Costa lets her words lazily fall out of her mouth as I have only heard seasoned singers do. The next track is another solid effort, but next to all the album's other songs, which all sound very original in one way or another, this song seems kind of plain.  
 
The album's closer, "Corners of My Mind", is a fitting end to this album. Costa turns the energy down a few notches on this beautifully bare track, which features a cello accompaniament and the gentle lapping of slowly running water in the background. This song seems to give the listener a chance to peacefully meditate and relax after 45 minutes of bombastic energy and powerful music. 
 
I would highly recommend this album to anyone who is interested in hearing the debut of an artist who's music we will be listening to for years to come. Enjoy!

1. Like A Feather
2. So Have I For You
3. Tug Of War
4. Everybody Got Their Something
5. Nothing
6. Nikka What?
7. Hope It Felt Good
8. Some Kind Of Beautiful
9. Nikka Who?
10. Just Because
11. Push & Pull
12. Corners Of My Mind

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