![]() ![]() ![]() Lucky Day opens with the sound of stamping boots before a skronky electric guitar line and chorus of banshees kick in. It's disappointing, especially since there are moments of bracing weirdness to taunt the listener with what have been. These are precision-engineered 21st-century pop songs, marching to the beat of a ProTools preset. Her much-publicised use of the traditional instruments and performance styles of her Mongol heritage feels cosmetic. ![]() Dingding's singing, though admittedly acrobatic, tends to the gooey, breathy, baby-doll style of Cantopop cliché. Every track seems to lurch into the same galumphing rhythm, part latter-day Bond theme, part French ethno-trance. Sa Dingding, we are told, is one of China's biggest stars but her third album, Harmony, sheds no more light than its predecessors on why that might be.ĭespite a gleaming production courtesy of Marius de Vries and a good measure of straight-faced lunacy, it is a tedious bit of work. ![]()
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