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Publisher: Young Turks/XL
Release date: 17th August, 2009
Media: Audio CD
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Track List
- Intro
- VCR
- Crystalised
- Islands
- Heart Skipped A Beat
- Fantasy
- Shelter
- Basic Space
- Infinity
- Night Time
- Stars
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- Music that makes you love music again.
Perfect for reinvigorating that jaded palate. Everyone once in a while someone comes up with a new way of jumbling their influences. This sounds like the future. Sure, it will be old hat in a year, but right now, that mix of new wave and dubstep aches with the feel of today's pavements
Rating: - A delicate album that really grows on you
When I first heard this album, after hearing all the hype surrounding it, I wasn't massively impressed.
Yet the more you listen to it the better it gets, which is more than can be said for a lot of records.
It draws comparisons with lo-fi indie, from Pavement to Slint, to modern urban music such as Burial.
The band apparently recorded it in a garage late at night, which added to the air of silence and muted guitar and vocals that pervades the album, transforming it from standard indie fair into something approaching an arty concept album.
The record has a uniform sound that has led some to dub it boring, but each track develops the sound in a different way and there's always something new to discover. As the Guardian wrote, listening to it on headphones on a bus late at night takes the album into a different sphere...different things seem to stick out and the silences seem much more poignant.
Rating: 
- pleasantly surpised
I heard "Infinity" on the radio by chance, and loved its unusually refreshing yet relaxing sound. I was happy to discover that their whole album follows the same road from the first track to the last one. Highly recommended.
Rating: - Love it already
This album only arrived yesterday but already it's won a place at the top of our playlist. We tend to listen to music mostly as a background to a glass of something chilled in the evening and this hits the spot brilliantly. It's melodic, enigmatic and full of genuine emotion. I've seen other reviewers criticise the lack of a professional-sounding singer, but I disagree - the vocal performances are understated, which suits the album's whole tone. Played quietly, this album does a very good job of gently lulling you along with it, but crank it up and it becomes darker, more powerful. It's been a long time since I liked something so utterly and immediately - would have had to have been Siouxsie's album, or School of Seven Bells that's grabbed me quite so powerfully before this. Go buy.
Rating: - Reminiscent
Great if you like this kind of moody and slightly chilly indie stuff, which I do.
The trouble with being an old git (57) is that you get reminded of stuff from the past all the time. In this case that past is Young Marble Giants (Colossal Youth), than which there are worse things to be reminded of, so.....
4 stars, plus an extra half for being from South London.
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