My primary feeling with
DiElle is annoyance. That has been building up for a long time.
I have had her on the
review list since January 21st, getting surprisingly close to a year. For some
perspective, tomorrow's band was entered on June 28th. (I try to keep it within
six months.)
That happened because
when I first went to check out DiElle's site there was a very disjointed
navigation process for listening to about 40 songs, and I didn't have time for
all the clicking back and forth.
That only delayed her for
about two months. Then when I gritted my teeth to get to it, I discovered that
the vast majority of the tracks were just half-minute samples. You needed to
pay to get whole songs.
I have a lot of sympathy
for the need of musicians to make money. I support that. I still think if you
are trying to sell 40 songs you can afford to have a small block of songs (I
think 4 - 6 is optimal) for people to listen to together, letting them know if
you have music they would be interested in. This is especially true if you go
around following different accounts trying to raise interest in your work:
provide some work! Some bands will send you some tracks if you subscribe to
their mailing list; I don't love that either, but at least it gives you an
option.
(If this complaint sounds
familiar, I had similar issues with Prophecy of Sound.)
What DiElle gives you is
two versions of the same song on Spotify, a list of four official videos that
is really just two videos that play, one private video, and one short clip, and
of course a page full of 30-second clips. What I mostly used was another play
list - titled original material - which had some good recordings but also some
with poor sound quality, some interviews, and more of the notorious short
clips.
I remain annoyed.
Anyway, DiElle reminds me
a lot of Adele. Her voice isn't quite as strong, but she doesn't take that hard
edge Adele often does either, which may make her more palatable for some.
However, unless you just want to assume you like and start buying tracks,
listening to her takes an unfortunate amount of commitment.
But, except for a daily
song down the road, she is no longer my problem, and that makes me happy.
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