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Nympho | 
 enlarge | Artist: Armand Van Helden
Label: Southern Fried
Category: Music
List Price: £10.99
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 57625
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 5060065587798
ASIN: B0009353QY
Release Date: July 4, 2005
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| Tracks:
| • | Nympho | | • | Come Play With Me | | • | Into Your Eyes | | • | Sugar | | • | Brainwashing | | • | Hear My Name | | • | Hot City Nights | | • | Jenny | | • | When The Lights Go Down | | • | Juicy Juicy | | • | My My My | | • | Got Over You | | • | The Teardrop |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
Having found mainstream chart success with his anthem "My My My", Armand Van Helden follows it up with Nympho, a full length album on Norman Cook's Southern Fried label. If the aforementioned hit was your introduction to Armand or you only remember him from "You Don't Know Me", the maniacal screeching of Virgin Killer on the opening title track might come as a surprise. In short, Nympho is a rock/dance crossover with the emphasis on dance music that rocks. For the most part each tune consists of a dark, distorted bassline with guitars and angry vocals, such as "Brainwashing" and the fantastically dark (in spite of its childlike rhyming) "Got Over You". There is respite from the aggressive assault in the shape of 2nd single "Hear My Name" and the grin-inducing terrace anthem "When the Lights Go Down"--both exude the same sing-along poppiness as "My My My", also included here. The nearest comparison to the sound of Nympho would be Deep Dish's "Flashdance" although as ever, Armand's production is rougher, more raw and dirtier that any of his peers. A great album for club kids, maybe not crossover enough for rockers, but if you like crunching guitars in your house and don't mind the odd cowbell, this is definitely the album for you. --David Trueman
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| Customer Reviews:
 Base Boost September 3, 2005
D. Smith (Nottingham, UK)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I waited a long time for this album and even when it came out took me ages to get hold of a copy for various reasons. It's playing at the moment and does not dissapoint in any way. It's as deep and hard hitting as I thought it would be and every time the base kicks in it you just want to turn it louder and louder!!!
 At last! July 19, 2005
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
A great album of chunky beats and rawkus guitars in the noughties!
Who'd have thought it possible?
Well Armand's pulled it out of the bag.
Some of the tracks on his previous lp hinted at a move towards (dare I say it) a big beat sound and now he's gone for it big time.
The tunes seem to be built around the vocals rather than the usual "electronica" effect of it seemingly being whacked over the top. The rock rawness for once seems at one with the dance construction.
Armand's house roots are blatantly there in the relentless, building rhythm of the album.
Dance albums are supposed to get your head nodding and this doesn't disappoint.
It may be house, it may not be, but it definitely rocks.
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