Imogen Heap

(taken from Wikipedia)

Imogen Heap is a Grammy Award-winning British singer, composer and songwriter from Romford, Havering. She is known for her work as part of the musical duo Frou Frou and her solo albums, which she writes, produces, and mixes most by herself.

In 2006, Imogen Heap was nominated for two Grammy Awards. She has produced three solo albums, the latest of which is Ellipse, which was a North American chart success and earned her two Grammy nominations and winning Best Engineered Album~Non-Classical.

Imogen Heap is known as skilled multi-instrumentalist. She is a real deal when referred to extensively use of mixed and whimsical sounds. Listening to her musics are truly like sensing them coming to life. And Although her works might haven't reached multi-million copies sold like Britney Spears or Taylor Swift yet, Immi surely already has fanatic fans waiting for her latest breakthrough and standing for her. :)

Albums

iMegaphone (1998)
Speak For Yourself (2005)
Ellipse (2009)

Singles
(1998) "Getting Scared", "Shine", "Come Here Boy", "Oh Me, Oh My"
(1999) "G.M.T"* (means Greenwich Mean Time, collaboration with Guy Sigsworth)
(2005) "Hide and Seek"
(2006) "Goodnight and Go", "Headlock"
(2008) "Not Now But Soon"
(2009) "First Train Home", "Swoon"

Let Go
Among all her songs, "Let Go" is definitely on the top of my top list!. Actually, this song produced when she collaborated with Guy Sigsworth in Frou Frou. For some reasons, "Let Go" has an ironically beautiful tone for a song of breaking-down. I always played this song repeatedly in my Winamp whenever and wherever I need a trigger to release my emotion. Immi's fabulous vocal is really exposed here. She exceptionally has a true talent and mesmerizing voice.

First Train Home
Taken from her latest album, Ellipse, this song is an introduction of her newest musical journey. For me, Imogen Heap is one of the musicians who totally know who they are and what they want. People who aren't trying to be fake. As a first single, "First Train Home" actually is an exact song to reflect her idealism. Its lyric tell a story about a wishful hope to come home, to a place where you can be true to yourself. Maybe, this song is also a reminiscent to her experience in making music, especially when she moved for living alone in her family house to explore and create her Ellipse album.

Goodnight and Go
A song from "Speak for Yourself" album. Immi is undoubtedly talented in songwriting. She's so good in crafting words to be a meaningfully secretive lyric. And somehow, many of her lyrics are truly expressed random attitudes and thoghts of Venusians :)

Let's confess together, girls. Don't you really think that "Goodnight and Go" is like a portion of our classy stalking action? You know, those weird and exciting things we often do when we have an eye to someone special. I'm like that, too :p

Shh
This song has hilarious lyric! When I first listened to it, I thought that it's about playing hide and seek. Or sneaking into a creepy house, a mad professor's lab or something like that. :)

But actually, "Shh" is about alien coming and someone and partner sneaking into their UFO. Oh my, I found these explanation on a website and Imogen actually admit it! A song about alien, what a creative mind she had :)

Speeding Cars
I used my song as soundtrack of my life, especially for going through the break-up with my boyfriend. The Long Distance Relationship didn't work well. No offense, I felt really at --let's say, my lowest point in life. I didn't mad or angry to him anymore, but I'm still on my way raising up myself from dwelling in ocean of sadness. My girlfriends actually are spread in several different cities than mine, so I can't host a live ladies time to meet them.

But, thanks God, I have Imogen Heap at my playlist. Instead of getting carried away by the feel of loneliness, I try to write and write and be focus in my other business. I felt this song as a pretty nice support for me. Listening to this song, I feel as if Imogen Heap is one of my besties, whispering to me, encouraging with her words :

"Now, now, darling
Oh don't lose your head
'cause none of us were angels
And you know I love you, yeah"

Hide and Seek
Again, an Immi's song I labeled as soundtrack of my life. Based on several forums and websites I browsed, people also had various interpretations about the lyric's meaning. I think the lyrics is about losing someone very dear to you because of an affair. To be more precise, a woman losing her love because of her partner's been unfaithful. The man keeps offering consolation, but a heart already broke. The trust was faded away, and even both could reconcile, the scratch was hard to erase. "Hide and Seek" is a song about woman's feeling, the words she wanted to say, which might didn't come out. Imogen did a very well job in defining the situation, the feeling, and the words rambling in my head.