The good news: The sound is heard better than the debut release by Miss E., but is still suboptimal. Is the "shocking"? Perhaps it should be the other way subtitled: "The boring ..." Miss E., although that would be judged too hard.
A balancing act between jazz, pop, Latin and retro is always difficult because you have to be different expectations. Miss E. certainly has a superb voice for "their" style! And you can hear just like because expressive and accentuated.
But the same class have the songwriters, instrumentalists and sound wizard not. A high-end system reveals the weaknesses of this disc considerably. It sounds mostly as if a "drum machine" and a voice that was taken behind a curtain, the only supporting sound elements are to the rest of the instruments and the same filling effects for identical scheme "around mixed" were. The drummer may forgive me - but the constant up-tempo beat is too dominant and appeared to be just annoying. And a "vinyl-scratching" to mix in a song is no longer revolutionary!
I miss dynamics in the recording and I miss creativity. Not enough, the individual songs are different. Miss E. has the potential sometimes a blues à la "Stormy Monday" insert. The motto of the production was probably: "We must now follow up on a catchy follow-CD". And it shows.
Although one can not speak of "Loundness War", but the overall design seems to me clearly to "MP3 Compatible". Who listens anyway only with "in-ear" -Kopfhören and iPhone, the like do not disturb the further. Proper fun music sounds different.
Overall, this is not a bad CD - recorded commercially appealing and pleasing. But it lacks the "oomph"!
