secondo la mia opinione l'album più riuscito dei tre pubblicati finora, dalle sonorità piacevoli adatte a svariate circostanze..ma soprattutto compagno di innumerevoli viaggi in macchina!
5つ星のうち4.0The album is really called s-t. Honest, it is.
2007年1月12日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済み
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It's 2007 now, and blending mild indie rock with mild glitchtronica just isn't that *new* any more. The Postal Service showed us how to do it well, but it somehow, it usually comes across a little bloodless and sterile.
But the devil is in the details, and I think Ben and Alex (of Electric President) are kinda into details. The sound is intimate and warm and the production is effortlessly surprising and mostly pretty fresh. Fans of The Postal Service will eat it up, but there's something more compelling and original in here.
Some of these songs are the new looping soundtrack of my last three weeks: let's start at the top. "Ten Thousand Lines" is just absolutely stellar. It warms up with meandering guitar feedback and a pulsating beat, Ben mutters "goddammit" and something wonderful happens. All the beats, gentle swaying notes and slightly deranged vocal merge to create something quite powerful. It's the mixed-up stepchild of My Bloody Valentine and Beck, although it has the manners to wipe it's feet on the way in. Little details keep popping out of the mix to surprise you - it's lovely, strange and singable to boot.
"Good Morning, Hypocrite" (magnificently daubed with shades of the Beach Boys), "Insomnia" and "Metal Fingers" are all almost as great - the latter particularly good, with Portishead atmospherics and unexpected changes of pace. By the end it's going along at a rip which suggests that even pale indie white kids sometimes listen to hiphop.
There's a few nonentities scattered around the album, but they're rarely intrusive. I'll not even name names, but they know who they are. The whole listening experience is pretty seamless and the whole experience screams "potential for enormous crossover" to me.
I'd love to see the sound harden up a little on the next album. Occasionally we're surfing along the tassled edge of twee. When it's being lively and muscular, it's great. When it's not, it's one sequencer away from Belle and Sebastian. Which is hardly a hanging offence.
I bought this cd after hearing the music to an Asics tennis shoe commercial. I absolutely LOVE the start of that song titled "Ten Thousand Lines." The whole cd is pretty cool to listen to. I wouldn't say it is one of my favorites but I got the music that I was wanting and that was what mattered!