Spokes-People_Like_People_Like_You-2008-gF ARTIST: Spokes TITLE: People Like People Like You LABEL: Everyone Label GENRE: Indie SOURCE: CD BITRATE: 167 kbps avg PLAYTIME: 36:49 RELEASE DATE: 2008-00-00 RIP DATE: 2009-01-12
Track List ----------
1. We Like To Dance And Steal 3:39 Things 2. Young People! All Together 7:26 3. Scatter: I Miss You 2:54 4. Precursor 5:20 5. Sometimes Words Are Too Slow 9:50 6. End Credits/Loveletter 7:40
Release Notes:
It's incredibly easy to fall in love with an album when it takes in elements of slow-core, post-rock, shoe-gaze, folk and pop music so effortlessly, and when the richly textured instrumentation balances out grandiose gestures with quietly reflective passages, we're primed for singing praises to anyone who'll bother listening. This debut album from 5-piece band Spokes will satiate those of you yearning for new material from Mogwai, Mono or Explosions In The Sky, and if (like us) you fell in love with Do Make Say Think's career defining last album "You, You're a History in Rust" you'll have just discovered a natural bedfellow in the form of this majestic album. Ruth Ilgunas' sublime violin playing in particular adds an extra dimension to the recording (indeed, bringing to mind Do Make Say think's latest recruit Julie Penner), offsetting the occasional cacophony with substantial introspective weight. The opening track "We Like To Dance and Steal Things" echoes Radiohead's seemingly unparalleled ability to make popular music challenge and defy the middle of the road, opening with a beautifully arranged instrumental passage that builds and escalates into a tumble of crescendo and tempered euphoria. "Young People! All Together" employs a similar starting point but adjusts the template into a more anthemic beast, field recordings of children playing preparing the ground for a brief and adrenalin fuelled vocal section before the track ends with staggered guitars and crashing drums slowly dispersing to reveal the quiet sonic detritus of static and hum. "Precursor", meanwhile, opts for a vast, widescreen aesthetic that takes its time unravelling, while the closing "end credits / loveletter" showers the audience with a guarded optimism that's almost too pretty for words, marrying skittering drums and fragile strings with a constant capacity to build and propel itself forward, finally letting go with a solitary piano bringing the album to a close with a tinkle. Absolutely gorgeous stuff and a real find....ESSENTIAL PURCHASE.
Spokes-People_Like_People_Like_You-2008-gF
ReplyDeleteARTIST: Spokes
TITLE: People Like People Like You
LABEL: Everyone Label
GENRE: Indie
SOURCE: CD
BITRATE: 167 kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 36:49
RELEASE DATE: 2008-00-00
RIP DATE: 2009-01-12
Track List
----------
1. We Like To Dance And Steal 3:39
Things
2. Young People! All Together 7:26
3. Scatter: I Miss You 2:54
4. Precursor 5:20
5. Sometimes Words Are Too Slow 9:50
6. End Credits/Loveletter 7:40
Release Notes:
It's incredibly easy to fall in love with an album when it takes in elements of
slow-core, post-rock, shoe-gaze, folk and pop music so effortlessly, and when
the richly textured instrumentation balances out grandiose gestures with quietly
reflective passages, we're primed for singing praises to anyone who'll bother
listening. This debut album from 5-piece band Spokes will satiate those of you
yearning for new material from Mogwai, Mono or Explosions In The Sky, and if
(like us) you fell in love with Do Make Say Think's career defining last album
"You, You're a History in Rust" you'll have just discovered a natural bedfellow
in the form of this majestic album. Ruth Ilgunas' sublime violin playing in
particular adds an extra dimension to the recording (indeed, bringing to mind Do
Make Say think's latest recruit Julie Penner), offsetting the occasional
cacophony with substantial introspective weight. The opening track "We Like To
Dance and Steal Things" echoes Radiohead's seemingly unparalleled ability to
make popular music challenge and defy the middle of the road, opening with a
beautifully arranged instrumental passage that builds and escalates into a
tumble of crescendo and tempered euphoria. "Young People! All Together" employs
a similar starting point but adjusts the template into a more anthemic beast,
field recordings of children playing preparing the ground for a brief and
adrenalin fuelled vocal section before the track ends with staggered guitars and
crashing drums slowly dispersing to reveal the quiet sonic detritus of static
and hum. "Precursor", meanwhile, opts for a vast, widescreen aesthetic that
takes its time unravelling, while the closing "end credits / loveletter" showers
the audience with a guarded optimism that's almost too pretty for words,
marrying skittering drums and fragile strings with a constant capacity to build
and propel itself forward, finally letting go with a solitary piano bringing the
album to a close with a tinkle. Absolutely gorgeous stuff and a real
find....ESSENTIAL PURCHASE.
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