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This 2004 release from New Orleans based experimental techno outfit, Telefon Tel Aviv contains nine tracks, including, "I Lied", "Bubble and Spike", and "My Week Beats Your Year".
Map of What Is Effortless was probably anything but effortless in its creation. Crisp, majestic, and swirling, this sophomore record trumps their debut in spades. Fahrenheit Fair Enough (the group's 2001 fine enough in its own right debut) noodled with a mix of post-rock aesthetics filtered through beats split apart on a G4 and chilled, where Map brings the grandeur of radio-inflected soul, motion picture soundtrack pads, and even a little bravado with a production frame that kills anything found on the dial. Beautiful vocal performances easily float around Telefon Tel Aviv's crisp claps and melodic progressions. Each track floats on by, and that's the effortless part of it -- this record is over before you know it. Highlights include the cocky "My Week Beats Your Year" and the sensitive "Nothing Is Worth Losing That," but there's hardly a weak moment here. TTA manage to not only make their first great album, but also put in the first entry for the best of 2004. ~ Jack LV Isles
Japanese pressing of the electronica act's 2004 album, scheduled to include bonus material. Details TBA. JVC. 2004.
CD contains 2 bonus tracks.
Telefon Tel Aviv: Joshua Eustis, Charlie Cooper.
Additional personnel: Lindsay Anderson, Loyola University Chamber Orchestra.
Spin (3/04, p.96) - "Telefon Tel Aviv make a minimalist Massive Attack, hot-wiring neo-soul vocals and downcast bleeps and beats into a sad yet squelchy sleeper." - Grade: B
Entertainment Weekly (2/13/04, p.72) - "Not only for the broken-hearted, this is computer-driven soul for anyone who's spent too many nights in front of a flickering monitor." - Rating: B+
CMJ (1/26/04, p.21) - "[P]acks lush ambient soundscapes, broken-beat IDM rhythms and soothing vocals into nine gorgeosly structured songs." Map Of What Is Effortless Music Telefon Tel Aviv Map Of What Is Effortless Songs | 1. | When It Happens It Moves All by Itself |
| 2. | I Lied |
| 3. | My Week Beats Your Year |
| 4. | Bubble & Spike |
| 5. | Map of What Is Effortless |
| 6. | Nothing Is Worth Losing That |
| 7. | What It Is Without the Hand That Wields It |
| 8. | What It Was Will Never Again |
| 9. | At the Edge of the World You Will Still That |
| 10. | Jouzu Desu Ne (Bonus Track For Japan) |
| 11. | Sound in a Dark Room (Bonus Track For Japan) |
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