Music album reviews

Haarp
Muse
Recorded live at Wembley Stadium during two shows in June last year, Muse's Haarp is a 2-disc CD-DVD combo featuring high-definition videos of live versions of hits including Hysteria and Supermassive Black Hole, as well as a brilliant rendition of Nina Simone's Feelin' Good. The CD also contains live recording of the hits, including a never-heard-before version of Starlight. Fans of the band will love how they've taken their progressive rock sound and built on it, so that nothing from a live recording sounds even remotely close to the original. It's like buying a new Muse album of old songs, if that makes any sense.

The Odd Couple
Gnarls Barkley
Crazy was so crazy that expectations for The Odd Couple have gone through the roof. Luckily the album is all that, if not more. Gnarls Barkley fans will love Who's Gonna Save My Soul, Run (I'm A Natural Disaster) and Going On. When band members have names as creative as Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo Green, we're not surprised at the contents of the album. Like on St. Elsewhere, don't expect any mindblowing vocals or lyrics. And although Cee-Lo does have a gospel-trained voice, Danger Mouse does his usual trick of distorting the vocals to produce an almost cartoony sound.

9 Lives
Kat Deluna
9 Lives, the debut LP of 19- year-old Whine Up hitmaker Kat DeLuna, has finally made its way to Dubai. And believe us, this is one of those bilingual pop CDs that will leave you wanting more – so much more – from this Kat woman.

Begining with the 9 Lives intro, the rest of the album features a handful of music's biggest names including Busta Rhymes and Akon. Kat's voice is so perfect here, she sounds like she should be in the opera world instead of making a pop CD. But luckily for us she isn't, as 9 Lives is one of those rare feminine, flirty, powerful pop albums.