b9caf0cde0 Flowers From Exile is definitely one of the highlights of 2009 so far, and what's more, I feel like I may have just stumbled across one of my new favourite bands. You should be able to fly thru the game and compile lots of hints on the Wall of Fame level in the Bonus section. For example, Four Tet.Going by the stereotype, IDM is supposed to be challenging, futuristic, machinistic, and complex. It's among the finest love songs of the year, even if it does sound like James is admitting defeat when he sighs 'you've gotten into my bloodstream'.The second half of the record is generally more subdued and understated than the first, a balance reminiscent of the similarly skyscraping Guillemots album Through The Windowpane. Wont recomend to download this. The band's best album, and probably the best hard rock album of the decade. .
They broke up well before their time, packaging together two solo albums (one average, one awful) in the hope we wouldn't notice. He's not the only one in the hip-hop community who's got an interest in the band, either - fellow Shadow collaborator Lateef the Truthspeaker adds a rap to the viola-heavy "The Language".So their sound is perfect, and their influences are perfectly chosen. Thank the lord, then, for the Leeds-based five piece Stateless - a band who takes influence from such critically and commercially revered sources, and then wears those influences so proudly that they're unmistakable. I feel like I've only just scraped the surface of this album right now, even though I've devoted some time to it. When I heard this album first time out I didn't have the luxury of age or experience, though, so my 18-year-old tastes, warped by reading top 100 lists for a couple of years and treating them as gospel rather than as talking points, were a little resistant to this. It's actually a little hard to focus on what the rest of the band are doing for the first couple of listens, because his presence is so dominant. Really, the superlatives write themselves.Naturally, the comparison of Radiohead-meets-Massive Attack, thanks to the fact that you'll automatically assume that it's OK Computer and Kid A meeting Blue Lines and Mezzanine, makes them sound like the best band in the world. Track ratings show 1Ferris Wheel2Soul Power3Aquarius4Electric Wire Hustler Flower5The Hustle6Come Close7New Wave8Star *69 (PS With Love)9I Got a Right Ta10Between Me, You & Liberation11I Am Music12Jimi Was a Rock Star13Heaven Somewhere 8282.Death From Above 1979 You're a Woman, I'm a Machine (2004)Iai Jun 21, 2011Death From Above 1979You're a Woman, I'm a MachineRated: There's a unspoken rule in music, one of those things nobody ever really discusses but everybody knows anyway; the music that's meant to age well is the maudlin, emotionally weighty, carefully measured stuff, the likes of "Imagine" and "God Only Knows" and "Love Will Tear Us Apart", while the stuff that's fun, or fast, or that makes you want to dance, is the stuff you'll forget about or feel embarrassed about liking later.Horseshit, obviously.
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