The first single released ahead of the full album by Peter Bjorn & John left me feeling unimpressed. It was strange, and it felt like a bizarre little specimen plucked out of a curio cabinet and offered for examination without any background detail to help me understand it. So I wasn’t expecting much when I sat down to review this album.
So imagine my amazement when I was very pleasantly surprised by how listenable the album is a whole! Suddenly that strange curio is put into context, and it all falls into place. I even found myself starting to love the single I had disliked before, ‘Nothing To Worry About’. Like a bone separated from a skeleton the song meant nothing to me until it was returned to its proper place and given new meaning.
Tribal chants and jerky rhythms stripped of all but the essential flesh left me feeling off guard and open to the spare trace of synthesizers and the hollow, eerie wails of the vocals. Dark primitive percussive beats mingled with space-age austerity and every song had a powerful feeling of distance , desperation and longing. Some of the songs even seem to display a kind of playfulness on the part of the band, with ‘Lay It Down’ being a prime example. It’s a little serious, but pretty bouncy and funny too in an ever-so-lightly-threatening way. ‘Blue Period Picasso’ is both a serious love song but also a great tongue-cheek art metaphor. I believe I can only grow to like individual songs even more as I hear them again and again, and as I pick up the subtlety within. The songs are so bare that’s hard to imagine that so much merit can be hidden within, but it’s there and it’s stirring. “Living Thing” gets a solid 8/10 from me. I really recommend checking out the full album.
8/10
Here’s my favorite song from the album:
Peter Bjorn & John- It Don’t Move Me
Peter Bjorn & John- Living Thing (2009)
Sunday, April 05, 2009
Fastball is back with "Little White Lies"
American rock band returns with a great rock album "Little White Lies". It's been great, i 've listened all new songs. You can steam four new songs on their myspace. Always Never and The Malcontent are cool tracks for the openning part of new album.
The most famous Fastball song "The Way" entered Us Modern Rock Chart at number 1. It's also one of the best Fastball songs.
Their fifth full length album, "Little White Lies" will be released on April 14, 2009. You don't want to miss this! 9/10
Highlights: Always Never, Little White Lies, How Did I Get Here?Fastball - All I Was Looking For Was You
Death Cab For Cutie - The Open Door (2009)
Death Cab For Cutie is releasing an new EP entitled The Open Door, containing 4 new tracks and a demo. Although the 4 new tracks are a little different from those on the last album, The Open Door can be considered a companion piece to Narrow Stairs. The new songs are being showcased in Death Cab's live shows and they wanted to make them available to all of their fans.
It's one of few bands that i've been addicted to listen. Little Bribes is my favorite DCFC song right now!
listen:Death Cab For Cutie - Little Bribes
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