Natural Thing

Artist	Poi Dog Pondering
Format	CD
Genre	Rock
Label Name	Tommy Boy
Producer	Poi Dog Pondering, Dave Crawford, Frank Orrall, Martin Stebbing
Release Date	1999 04 20
Run Time	68:11
Song List	1: Octavio/Beautiful to Meet You (8:55) 2: Ta Bouche Est Tabou [French Mix] (5:48) 3: Natural Thing (5:55) 4: Come Together (5:00) 5: Diva [Live at House of Sound] (7:50) 6: Berry (2:43) 7: That's the Way Love Is (4:57) 8: Spend My Life [Moorea Mix] (8:35) 9: Hard Sometimes (5:18) 10: Jealous (5:32) 11: Tracery/Tana Dery Na [Waterlily Mix] (8:11)
Style.Categories	College Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock

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Chicago's best-kept secret, Poi Dog Pondering, gave up an ill-advised venture into electronica. They now return to making beautiful, rich pop music with Natural Thing. Poi Dog is doing what they do best in a studio: rich arrangements with an array of instruments supporting intelligent and moving songs. This 11-member music ensemble combines elements of blue-eyed soul, pop, rock, funk and techno in a unique and unforgettable blend. Plenty of violins, violas, and cellos go into each track here. Poi Dog is the brainchild of its bandleader Frank Orrall, who sings, quite well, on most tracks. However, guest vocalist Carla Prather sings beautifully on four of the tracks. Another foundation member of the group is multi-instrumentalist Paul Mertens, who solos and plays exquisitely on one of any number of flutes, saxophones, the harmonica, or the bass clarinet. Poi Dog's music often earns "joyous" for a description, and this is eminently true. ~ Tom Schulte, All Music Guide