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Montreal's Godspeed You Black Emperor! may get most of the press south of the 49th parallel, but their labelmates Do Make Say Think are more than Toronto's answer to the Quebecois collective; over the course of four albums, their own brand of instrumental post-rock has grown in scope and complexity to a point that 2003's Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn is as good as or better than anything the more famous band has released. Although the nine lengthy tracks all start similarly to Godspeed's epic slowcore, with single guitar, percussion or horn lines that float unmoored for seconds or even minutes before other instruments slowly coalesce around them. But where Godspeed's songs all tend to follow the same basic epic format, these songs are much more varied in both length and textures, ranging from the King Crimson-like slow build into squalling guitar-based rock of "Frederica" to the dizzying orchestral cut-ups of "Auberge le Mouton Noir" to the jazzy swing of the horn-led "Ontario Plates," which recalls the post-fusion experimentation of Norway's Jaga Jazzist. A richly detailed and musically compelling album that works both as a collection of songs and a fully integrated whole, Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn is a huge creative step forward for Do Make Say Think. ~ Stewart Mason
Recording information: Black Sheep Inn (01/2003-05/2003); Rockwood 2 Farmhouse, Rockwood, Ont (01/2003-05/2003); Schvitz, Tortonto, Ont (01/2003-05/2003); Th' Schvitz, Tor., Ont (01/2003-05/2003).
Photographer: Tino Piccollo.
Do Make say Think includes: Dave Mitchell, James Payment.
Audio Mixer: The Do Makes.
Q (12/03, p.124) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...Do Make Say Think make all the right noises but, happily, some wrong ones, too..." Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn Music Do Make Say Think Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn Songs | 1. | Fredericia |
| 2. | War on Want |
| 3. | Auberge le Mouton Noir |
| 4. | Outer Inner & Secret |
| 5. | 107 Reasons Why |
| 6. | Ontario Plates |
| 7. | Horns of a Rabbit |
| 8. | It's Gonna Rain |
| 9. | Hooray! Hooray! Hooray! |
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Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn Music Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn Music Review Purchase Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Do Make Say Think CD (1998)
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| | Do Make Say Think Goodbye Enemy Airship The Landlord Is Dead CD (2000)
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| | Explosions In The Sky Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Die CD (2001)
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| | A Silver Mt Zion Born Into Trouble As The Sparks Fly Upward CD (2001)
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| | Do Make Say Think And Yet And Yet CD (2002)
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| | Godspeed You Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O. CD (2002)
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From the bombs dropping on the cover to the slow buildups towards destruction and post-rock beauty in the compositions, this is Godspeed You Black Emperor at its most stripped-down, straightforward, and unsparing. Indie-rock icon Steve Albini produced YANQUI U.X.O., and his trademark extreme dynamics suit this shadowy Canadian collective well, weighing down on the roots of their whisper-to-frenzy style so they can freely branch off into new realms. The opener "09-15-00" departs into twangy, lounge-like territory not out of place for a Sergio Leone-cum-David Lynch nightmare (though it's apparently about Israel). "Rockets Fall on Rocket Falls" raises dark towers from shaky foundations of shivery Phillip Glass-style ...
| | Chelsea Punk Singles CD (2000) (Import) Import; Canada
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| | ABBA Super Trouper CD (1980) Bonus Tracks; Remastered; Digipak
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Principally recorded at Polar Music Studios, Stokholm, Sweden in 1980. Includes reissue liner notes by Carl Magnus Palm.
SUPER TROUPER is ABBA's seventh--and next to last--studio album, and one of their most artistically satisfying. The album's chart-topping singles include the propulsive title track, "Lay All Your Love On Me" and the bittersweet anthem "The Winner Takes It All," which many rank with "Dancing Queen" and "S.O.S." as one of the Swedish foursome's masterpieces. The rest of the album continues the more reflective, adult themes explored by its predecessors, VOULEZ-VOUZ and THE ALBUM. It's difficult to separate the downcast melancholy of songs like "Our Last Summer" and "The Way Old Friends Do"--recorded live at the same performance heard on ABBA LIVE in 1986--from the time period's gossip reports of the breakup of the band's two marriages. Even with such considerations aside, SUPER TROUPER is one of ABBA's finest releases.
Commercially, Super Trouper, ABBA's seventh album, was another worldwide blockbuster. "The Winner Takes It All," its lead-off single, released several months in advance of the album in most territories, was a smash; for example, it was the group's 14th consecutive Top Five hit in the U.K. and their eighth number one there. The title track was also a British chart-topper (their last), as was the album, their sixth. "Lay All Your Love on Me" made the U.K. Top Ten, and "On and on and On" was released as a single in some countries, hitting the Top Ten in Australia. (Typically, American success was more modest, though the album went gold, and "The Winner Takes It All" was a number one adult contemporary and Top Ten pop hit.) Musically, Super Trouper found ABBA, always trend-conscious, taking account of the passing of disco and returning to the pop/rock sound typical of their early albums. Only "Lay All Your Love on Me" employed a dance approach. The title song had the kind of martial beat and pop sound more in keeping with the group that had broken through with "Mamma Mia" and "S.O.S.," and "On and on and On" paid homage to one of their chief influences, the Beach Boys, with an arrangement reminiscent of "Do It Again." Lyrically, there was a distinct sense of world weariness and melancholy, from the divorce lamentations of "The Winner Takes It All" to the dissatisfaction with touring expressed in "Super Trouper" and even the ...
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| | Change Of Face Jealousy With A Halo EP CD (2004) (Import) Australia
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| | 2003 Pickathon CD (2004)
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| | Who Endless Wire CDs (2006) Import; Limited Edition
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Neither time, nor the deaths of founding members, nor claims that they'll never play together again seem to stop the legendary Who. On 2006's ENDLESS WIRE, the band's first official studio full-length since 1982's IT'S HARD, Pete Townshend is still folding progressive structures and lofty themes into bombastic, arena-ready rock, while Roger Daltrey belts it out as though it were still 1976. The Who's 2000s-era touring band, including drummer Zak Starkey, bassist Pino Palladino, and keyboardist John Bundrick, lend enough muscle to the musical attack here to recall the Who's glory days, and a host of studio musicians help flesh out and vary the sound.
Surprisingly, all of these elements--Townshend's songwriting, Daltrey's impassioned singing, and the band's tight performances--coalesce to create a remarkably consistent ...
| | Ina A Williams Masterpiece CD (2006)
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