Fourth Album from the Group of Ian Broudie, who Produced the First Two Echo and Bunnymen Albums.
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Dizzy Heights, singer, songwriter, and producer (Echo & the Bunnymen, the Fall, Sleeper) Ian Broudie's fourth album under the moniker Lightning Seeds, further refines his attempts to meld There Are But Four Small Faces and the Pet Shop Boys. Predictably ravishing on the surface, the results can also claim quite a lot of bite, snippiness, and even sorrow. "Imaginary Friends" spews more believable Kinks-style bile than other contemporary competitors have mustered, while "Sugar Coated Iceberg" is a sneering appraisal of the pop scene that only an indignant true believer could manage. "Waiting for Today to Happen", co-written with Nicky Wire, seems at least partly informed by the disappearance of Wire's fellow Manic Street Preacher Richey James. Broudie, though, is solely responsible for what proves the most affecting moment here, "Touch and Go". Both a celebration of friendship and a lament for those who have drifted into other lives, the song is an anthem for former new wavers who've long since left childish things--e.g., school and its shifting allegiances--behind for office jobs. That our emotional tour guide was born to be a light-handed chronicler of loss, innocence, and lost innocence is further underscored by the ambivalent tone of his karaoke turn at the Turtles' "You Showed Me" from the Austin Powers soundtrack, but "Touch and Go" sits at this record's heart. --Rickey Wright
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Fourth Album from the Group of Ian Broudie, who Produced the First Two Echo and Bunnymen Albums.
5つ星のうち5.0Dizzy Heights Like you do is one of those songs that reminds ...
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Dizzy Heights
Like you do is one of those songs that reminds the most of baroque pop era Beatles, but makes an impression with a bigger sensability for mildness in tone and a fully glued together sound, ditto with 'sugar coated iceberg' is also a right on baroque pop punch that like the aformentioned song also uses synthtextures to make things complete., you can hear it brooding in the atmosphere. It is easy to take this kind of pop for granted, because the sound is so slick and always on the roll. It is interesting how some songs that sound so charming really deal with bloody serious subjects as in ready or not' deals with anxiety disorder,and here we go til we drop it boarders mania while producing those kicking hooks. Likewise on the majesticly swinging opening imaginary friends. - it is really a tragic story, but it has a rippin beat and chord structure.
Remeber I talked about earlier how the seeds sounds like the byrds, on dizzy heights there is even a song on here penned by them, but there is more to dizzy heights than a 60's love affair IAN BROUDIE OWNS the scene, the tech and specs and he has everything under control!
Astreine Pop-Perlen aus der Blütezeit der Lightning Seeds: Toll produziert, gehen die Gute-Laune-Dreiminüter sofort ins Ohr. Kann man (mit Pausen) immer wieder hören, ohne dass es langweilig wird!