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"Avalanches above, life continues below"

Our Lady of The Two Towers

18:55 / 05.08.01

Anyone else heard the album 'Since I Left You'? I was hoping, from the single 'Frontier Psychiatrist' for an album of crazed KLF-style japery, but instead it's rather unremarkable dance music. A definite case of putting the best track out as a single.

Spatula Clarke

18:58 / 05.08.01

What? WHAT?

A more coherent response is currently beyond me...

The Strobe

19:09 / 05.08.01

At times, it's great - see: frontier Psychiatrist, Tonight, Two Hearts in 3-4 Time (what a title)... but much of it is really, really forgettable.

The whole album, then, isn't very good. It's all very clever... but really, I couldn't be arsed.

Seth

21:32 / 05.08.01

I was considering getting it. Thanks for helping me to save money!

(I have no willpower outside of talking myself out of purchases for critical reasons)

johnny whatif

10:49 / 07.08.01

Yeah, you're all right, it's a bit unremarkable (barring the aforementioned highlights), but -

It's perfect background music. If you're having a get-together at your place, and everybody's happily buzzing around, chatting and generally shooting the breeze, it's a good, up, floaty, friendly-mood-encouraging-kind of album.

There. I said it.

e-n

10:59 / 07.08.01

I recently used it as a backing track at atwo barbeques.
went down quiet well.

Rialto

11:18 / 07.08.01

quote:Originally posted by The Ungodly Lozt and Found Office:
rather unremarkable dance music

Typical indieboy nonsense. Is it a coincidence that 'Frontier...' is the one track that you can't dance to?

Graham the Happy Scum

12:15 / 07.08.01

Ha! If they had put Rock City ("legs like machetes!") on the album you wouldn't be so snooty.

Better than the ChemBros, any day.

rizla mission

13:20 / 07.08.01

quote:Originally posted by e-n:
I recently used it as a backing track at atwo barbeques.
went down quiet well.

Well that's cemented my lack of enthusiasm.

FUCK background music.

Frontier Psychiatrist is great beyond words though, isn't it?

Our Lady of The Two Towers

13:23 / 07.08.01

quote:Originally posted by Armchair Subversive:

Typical indieboy nonsense. Is it a coincidence that 'Frontier...' is the one track that you can't dance to?

Yes it is, though get me pissed and you'll see I can't dance to anything. Who's wearing that fiction suit? I can only assume that it's no-one I know because otherwise you'd know I'm more of an electronica/dance music fan than I am an Indie fan these days.

Our Lady of The Two Towers

13:24 / 07.08.01

And what about that latin beat bit at the end, you could surely dance to that?

Stephen

06:58 / 08.08.01

quote: FUCK background music.

I reckon that depends on what's in the foreground. I always keep a selection of music I only ever listen to when I'm writing and drawing, if it's too intrusive it distracts from my concentration, if it's 'background music' it can set a particular tone/mood that filters into what you're doing in some way. Avalanches CD is pretty good for this.

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