2006 and fifth album for 4AD for this band featuring Neil and Rachel from Slowdive. Puzzles Like You sees the band moving forward in an unexpected direction; these songs are more immediate and poppy than anything they recorded before and the album is infectious and downright fun. Features the single 'Breaking the Ice'. 2006.
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Their fifth album for 4AD in a relationship that has now spanned a dozen years. "Puzzles" sees the band moving forward in an unexpected direction; these songs are more immediate and poppy than anything they recorded before. The album is filled with the life-affirming light of Mojave 3's Cornish home - splashed with sunlight and the heady sparkle of summertime waves. "Puzzles" is infectious and downright fun, a fact reflected in the exuberant artwork supplied by artist/film director Thomas Campbell (whose film "Sprout" used generous amounts of Mojave and Halstead music), and the marvelously quirky video for "Breaking The Ice" directed by Bradley Beesley (Flaming Lips). Subtle and gorgeous music.
Hör grad das Album, wunder mich wie alt es schon ist - es ist nahezu perfekt. Es ist nicht so tragend wie die anderen schönen Alben von M3, dafür hat es zig Hits und erinnert mich an das Go-Betweens-Album 16 Lovers Lane.
5つ星のうち4.0Bands this consistent usually don't live long
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It's sometimes hard to think there are really anymore pleasing melodies out there, but thank Halstead & co. for proving me wrong. I am happily pleased with their latest, and very eagerly awaited, effort. Instead of the depths of melancholia and loveliness on, say, OUT OF TUNE, they give us 41+ minutes of what seems like basically "it's good, everything's going just way OK..." It's happy. Maybe I'll hear a lyric later that says something else, but for those for whom music is the priority, you can't go wrong with this considered and experienced and artful pop. Four and a half stars.
They traded in their acuostic guitars for electric ones. That's not to say, howerver, that this is an electric album. On their past albms they would fill their songs with acoustic rhythm and punctuate them with well timed electric leads or wonderfully jaunty piano riffs. On this album they have (for the most part) replaced the acoustic rhythm with electric rhythm and somewhere along the way the songs got a little lost in the translation. Clean toned electric guitars against a backdrop of, you guessed, clean toned electric guitars, there's no room for the songs to breath, there's nowhere for them to go, there's no fight in them.
I am a die hard Mojave 3 fan, so for me to write such a critical review is a hard thing for me to do, but take this into account... it still got a 3.5 from me, now that's saying something.