Better Days

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共15首歌曲

艺人: Tom Frager
语种: 英语
厂牌: Universal Import
发行时间: 2008年01月01日
专辑类别: 录音室专辑

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Tom Frager1977年出生在非洲，随后在瓜德罗普岛长大，热爱冲浪，得过10次岛上的冲浪冠军。

2002年，他与四个与他一起冲浪的成员组成了一个叫Gwayav' 的乐队。出过一张专辑。乐队的风格是folk, pop, 还有reggae(一种源出西印度群岛的通俗音乐) 歌曲用三种语言写（英，法，克里奥尔语）（一种法语、西班牙语、葡萄牙语和本地语的混合语）然后在2009年在单曲lady melody之后就出了这张专辑。

by Jason Birchmeier

Tom Frager broke through to mainstream success in autumn 2009 with "Lady Melody," a melodic ballad that topped the French singles chart for four weeks straight. Prior to the breakthrough success of "Lady Melody," Frager was better known as a professional surfer than as a singer/songwriter. He made his full-length debut in 2006 with Bloom Inside, an independently released album billed to his band, Gwayav', rather than himself that went little heard. Better Days, his second album, also went little heard upon its initial release in 2008. Originally released as a ten-track album, Better Days is a mix of French- and English-language songs penned by Frager that are reggae-inflected to varying degrees. While the ear-pleasing melodies of "Lady Melody" glide along a lilting reggae rhythm and are accentuated by easy listening touches of piano and saxophone, other songs -- such as the title track -- are straight-up reggae from both a vocal and musical standpoint. In some ways, the success of Frager is similar to that of Christophe Maé, another French celebrity turned singer/songwriter who broke through to chart-topping success with a reggae-inflected style. Both are white Frenchmen inspired by Africa and its music (indeed, Frager is African-born), and both play acoustic guitar with the backing of a full band, backup vocalists and all. There's clearly a market for this style of reggae-inflected singer/songwriter music in France, and Universal Music was keen to pick up Better Days for major-label re-release in 2009, adding five bonus tracks and pushing "Lady Melody" as a breakout single. The 15-track major-label edition of Better Days improves upon the ten-track original edition. For one, it adds the album-opening song "Give Me That Love," the English-language follow-up single to "Lady Melody," and it also adds duets with Tom Curren, Lovy Jam, Ben Mazué, and Lee Ann Curren. Interspersed throughout the album sequencing, these duets in particular help diversify Better Days, which in its original edition plays a bit too repetitively, with English-language songs following the French ones and the melodic ballads offset by rootsy reggae numbers. While fans of "Lady Melody" should find plenty to enjoy elsewhere on Better Days, the album would have been better if Frager had sung entirely in French rather than English. For whatever reason, the majority of Better Days is sung in English, and while Frager has a fairly firm grasp of the language, there's no question that his songs are better sung in French ("Lady Melody," for instance).

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