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Sal Cinquemani

Sal Cinquemani is the co-founder and co-editor of Slant Magazine. His writing has appeared in Rolling Stone, Billboard, The Village Voice, and others. He is also an award-winning screenwriter/director and festival programmer.

Sade, Lovers Rock

Review: Sade, Lovers Rock

by Sal Cinquemani
April 15, 2001

Sade can wait as long as she likes between albums and there will always be an audience waiting.

Ricky Martin, Sound Loaded

Review: Ricky Martin, Sound Loaded

by Sal Cinquemani
April 15, 2001

Martin’s second English-language album can be divided into two relatively equal parts: the English part and the good part.

Incubus, Make Yourself

Review: Incubus, Make Yourself

by Sal Cinquemani
April 14, 2001

The album brims with a revolutionary undercurrent.

Mirwais, Production

Review: Mirwais, Production

by Sal Cinquemani
April 9, 2001

Listening to Production gives one a more complete sense of Madonna’s talent for recruiting the next big thing.

Patti Smith, Gung Ho

Review: Patti Smith, Gung Ho

by Sal Cinquemani
April 8, 2001

Gung Ho is Smith’s flawed yet admirable attempt to keep it spinning in the age of change.

Smashing Pumpkins, Machina: The Machines of God

Review: Smashing Pumpkins, Machina: The Machines of God

by Sal Cinquemani
April 7, 2001

The Smashing Pumpkins’s final major label release is at once sad and strangely prophetic.

Erykah Badu, Mama's Gun

Review: Erykah Badu, Mama’s Gun

by Sal Cinquemani
April 7, 2001

To Badu, music equals inspiration.

Hybrid, Wider Angle: Special Edition

Review: Hybrid, Wider Angle: Special Edition

by Sal Cinquemani
March 9, 2001

The special limited edition is a double-disc set that includes one disc of studio material and a bonus disc of live and previously unreleased tracks.

Sarah Brightman, La Luna

Review: Sarah Brightman, La Luna

by Sal Cinquemani
March 2, 2001

Her voice, viewed by some as one of the best of our time, is the album’s centerpiece and it rarely leaves the spotlight.

Jennifer Lopez, J. Lo

Review: Jennifer Lopez, J. Lo

by Sal Cinquemani
February 11, 2001

Jennifer Lopez is a child of the ’80s.

Fatboy Slim, Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars

Review: Fatboy Slim, Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars

by Sal Cinquemani
February 9, 2001

Much like Moby, Fatboy Slim continues to prove that techno can have soul and that it’s a legitimate subgenre of rock.

Lil' Kim, The Notorious K.I.M.

Review: Lil’ Kim, The Notorious K.I.M.

by Sal Cinquemani
February 4, 2001

With her new album, Lil’ Kim finds new and inventive ways to demand oral pleasure from her men.

U2, All That You Can't Leave Behind

Review: U2, All That You Can’t Leave Behind

by Sal Cinquemani
February 3, 2001

U2 wants a hit…bad.

Tosca, Suzuki

Review: Tosca, Suzuki

by Sal Cinquemani
January 25, 2001

While Tosca’s Opera was sexy and decadent, Suzuki is enlightened and even chaste by comparison.

Björk, Selmasongs

Review: Björk, Selmasongs

by Sal Cinquemani
January 20, 2001

More than a few songs here would fit nicely nestled between tracks on Homogenic.

Green Day, Warning

Review: Green Day, Warning

by Sal Cinquemani
January 20, 2001

Warning misses some of the youthful vigor of Dookie and the exciting rebellion that punk once brought to the mainstream.

PJ Harvey, Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea

Review: PJ Harvey, Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea

by Sal Cinquemani
January 20, 2001

Harvey seems to have set out to purposely make a New York album, and its flaw is in its all-too-obvious intention.

Danielle Brisebois, Portable Life

Review: Danielle Brisebois, Portable Life

by Sal Cinquemani
January 20, 2001

Brisebois’s voice is distinctive and timeless, light enough for pop radio but strong enough for a good wail.

Eminem, The Marshall Mathers LP

Review: Eminem, ‘The Marshall Mathers LP’

by Sal Cinquemani
January 16, 2001

The songs here seem to be the result of a severely maladjusted individual rather than an intentional satirist.

Dido, No Angel

Review: Dido, No Angel

by Sal Cinquemani
January 16, 2001

No Angel is a sleepy response to the torture of lost love, its folky pop quietly accented with elements of electronica.

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