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American Analog Set's fifth studio offering, PROMISE OF LOVE, shows remarkable range and ambition. Of course, even recording the album was no small feat, considering the band's bi-regional status, as singer-songwriter Andrew Kenny relocated to Brooklyn, leaving the rest of the band behind in Austin. On moody, contemplative numbers such as "You Own Me," American Analog Set tones down its trademark drone sensibilities in favor of more languid melodies and understated, breathy vocals. AmAnSet also deftly balances the low key, krautrock influenced numbers with more percussion-heavy rock songs, such as "Promise of Love" and "The Hatist." Despite personnel relocation, PROMISE OF LOVE proves to be a cohesive effort, combining dreamy melodies with calculated textured instrumentation.
Promise Of Love showcases the bands ability to pen a rock song, a sad song, a dance song and a slow burner, juxtapose them all and come out with a flawless album. Eight captivating, swirling, enigmatic and heartbreakingly beautiful songs. For fans of Death cab For Cutie, Bedhead and Stereolab. Tiger Style. 2003.Uncut (8/03, p.102) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...A hypnotic hum and gently insistent melody sees them through. 'Continuous Hit Music' and 'The Hatist' show how potent drone rock can be..."
Magnet (6-7/03, p.85) - "...What's miraculous about PROMISE OF LOVE is the way the band instills the music with such incredible warmth....Organs hum and twinkle, vocals are hushed and guitar is skeleton-spare....These songs create a soft, sustained glow..."
The Wire (7/03, p.72) - "...A set of gentle love rockers....[It] gradually crawls into your subconscious and sets up home....Hushed vocals and the group's ability to keep a good tune ticking over is what makes this one worth investigating..."
Mojo (Publisher) (7/03, p.101) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...[Their] aching Europhile tendencies achieve a new intensity..." American Analog Set Promise Of Love Songs | 1. | Continuous Hit Music | |
| 2. | Hard to Find | $0.99 | |
| 3. | Come Home Baby Julie, Come Home | |
| 4. | You Own Me | |
| 5. | Promise of Love | |
| 6. | Hatist, The | |
| 7. | Fool Around | |
| 8. | Modern Drummer | |
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Promise Of Love Music Review Purchase Promise Of Love CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Elliott Smith Xo CD (1998)
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The Cinderella-esque climb from lo-fi indie cult artist to Grammy nominee/major label darling must have been a perilous one for Smith, who makes the leap to the big time here after three well-regarded albums on small labels. He's lost none of his bite, though. The production values on XO may be slightly higher, but Smith's vision remains undiluted.
The production, centered around acoustic guitar augmented by keyboards and lush vocal harmonies, recalls pop icons like the Beach Boys (especially on the closing acapella cut), Beatles and Big Star, but ...
| | American Analog Set Know By Heart CD (2001)
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| | VH1 Presents The Corrs Live In Dublin CD (2002)
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This audio document of The Corrs' Dublin homecoming concert has pretty much everything fans of Irish pop could wish for, including an appearance from Bono in his earthly incarnation, fresh from an audience with President George W. Bush. It's to the band's credit that the charismatic singer fails to steal the show, despite creditable efforts via an anthemized version of Ryan Adams' beautifully downtempo "When the Stars Go Blue," ...
| | Broken Social Scene You Forgot It In People CD (2002) (Import) Canada
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Nothing less than an indie-rock milestone, this is what happens when a number of musicians from the Canadian post-rock scene (including members of Godspeed You Black Emperor, A Silver Mt. Zion, and Do Make Say Think) abandon their extended-jam conceptualizing in favor of short, optimistic, pop-oriented songs. Things start out in a jazzy, bass-heavy space before morphing into "KC Accidental," a guitar-layered track that sounds like the Allman Brothers covering Sonic Youth's "Teenage Riot." Catchy hooks triplicate alongside hand clapping, fuzz guitar, and Brendan Canning's whispered vocals on "Stars and Sons," while the mellow, acoustic "Looks Just Like the Sun" gives way to the twangy neo-Tropicalia and cockeyed (but uplifting and cohesive) experimentalism of "Pacific Theme."
Emily Haines (of the Metrics) lends a vocal to "Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl," which ends in a roundelay of swirling violins and banjo. "Cause = Time" is an even more tuneful brother to "Stars and Sons" that's so good, by the time the mournful, ...
| | Arcade Fire Funeral CD (2004)
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This Montreal ensemble's fiery debut is marked by surging guitars, soulful strings, driving drums, brilliant bass lines, and the quavering vocals of married couple Win Butler and Regine Chassagne. The group's song structures careen through a vast territory of musical and personal history, with lyrics warm with memories of childhood neighborhoods and deceased loved ones, resulting in an alternating current of joy and sadness.
Favorably compared to the Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev, and Broken Social Scene, the Arcade Fire's sound seems to come from a lifetime of listening to the Cure, Talking Heads, Elvis Costello, and many others--even a dose of soul gets worked into these grand anthems. Chassagne ...
| | Elliott Smith From A Basement On The Hill CD (2004)
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Elliott Smith's death in 2003 left a cavernous hole in the world of popular music. Tender, intimate, and painfully honest, the songs in Smith's catalogue capture the fragility of human existence with rare, breathtaking beauty. On his first posthumous release, Smith reaffirms his status as an extraordinarily gifted artist, giving fans yet another reason to mourn his tragic loss.
Conceived as an ambitious double album, FROM A BASEMENT ON THE HILL was ultimately narrowed down to 15 tracks by Smith's close friends, producer Rob Schnapf (Beck's MELLOW GOLD, Smith's X/O) and musician Joanna Bolme (the Minders, Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks). The result is a heartbreaking collection of songs that ...
| | Gants I Wonder CD (1988) (Import) United Kingdom
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An identically titled compilation of Gants material, with identical liner notes, appeared as an 18-track LP on Bam Caruso in 1988. This is essentially a CD expansion of that album, retaining all 18 songs from the LP and adding a further dozen for a total of thirty. Hence it's a preferable makeover from every vantage point, particularly as it includes three vital tracks that were somehow omitted from the LP configuration: "Roadrunner" (their sole national hit), their 1966 single "Little Boy Sad" (a crunching cover of a song previously done by Johnny Burnette), and the Rolling Stones-like original "(You Can't Blow) Smoke Rings." As with the 1988 Bam Caruso LP, star tracks ...
| | Ash Meltdown CDs (2004)
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Intital pressings of MELTDOWN include a bonus DVD featuring seven music videos.
Ireland's Ash plays rock the way it was meant to be--with aggressive punch, catchy hooks, and the volume knobs set to 11. Ash takes pages from the punk-pop of the Buzzcocks and the Undertones, the riff-centric 1970s hard rock of Aerosmith and AC/DC, and the gleaming, anthemic '90s sounds of Smashing Pumpkins and Nirvana. Synthesizing these elements to perfection on 2005's MELTDOWN, Ash strikes an immediately appealing balance between the dark and heavy ...
| | Joseph James CD (2001)
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Singer/Songwriter/Guitarist Joseph James has a "One Track Mind" and Its Country!The latest Joseph James' CD features some of the top Nashville ...
| | Dagons Reverse CD (2006)
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| | Paul Carrack Blue Views CD (1996) (Import) United Kingdom
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