Nota

 (26 customer reviews)

As a fan of Nota since watching them take the title in season one of NBC's "The Sing Off," I have been waiting in anticipation for their album release.

I feared that a great a capella group would go into the studio and be so overly engineered that their signature sound would be lost. Boy, was I WRONG!

This album ROCKS! With 11 songs, they managed to capture a bit of everything for everyone, but cohesively. You don't feel like you're listening to some random mishmash. It all fits together and captures what I grew to love about NOTA from watching "The Sing Off." You get some great covers of popular tunes (like Jay Sean's "Down," Smokey's "Tracks Of My Tears", some songs en Español ("Todo Cambió," "Qué Tengo Que Hacer" and others), and originals that are really great!

My favorite song is David Pinto's "You Own My All." Lilty and fun, it has the Jason Mraz "I'm Yours" feel and has a great sound. (Mraz's song did not make this album if...Read more

This album is a travesty. I had been looking forward to it ever since Nota won The Sing Off in December of 2009. Unfortunately, Sony has had their corporate way with these poor guys, adding synths, autotune and background vocalists; clearly Sony didn't quite understand the whole "a capella" aspect of the original competition. The only song on the whole album which captures the spirit of their performances on the Sing Off is the cover of My Girl, which saves the album from a 1 star rating. Really, this is just a terrible thing to do to a new band, and it pretty much encapsulates what's wrong with the music industry's talent meat grinder.

This CD is great, worth every penny. It is hard to believe that is purely vocal, the interpretation of the instruments is incredibly good. The CD has popular songs, mostly in English, but it has at least 3 songs in Spanish and a beautiful influence of tropical rythms. Regardless of your ethnic background, the CD is worth listening to, the interpretation of instruments just cheers you up :)