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Post by blondeambassador on Mar 7, 2009 9:20:44 GMT
Hmm... First Impressions (and they frequently change: see In Rainbows and Amputechture for albums I hated first time and have loved after about 5 plays) are not good. There's about par for an album's length; but there's not 45 minutes of songs here. Lyrically there's about 5 songs' worth at very most, so so much repetition, and I can't get into that. Musically it seems a different difficult situation - each song seems to have a great idea (or for The Gloaming 5) but that's it. I'm missing the chiming guitars that were so characterful, and what guitar there is seems a concession to people expecting it - I'm positive Jamie knocked it off in an afternoon. Having said that - Deus and Gloaming do well, Gloaming's still far better live, VC is far better than on the single, the mix is poor and undynamic, and those horns on Bloodless (I believe) are poor. As I've said, I'm sure this'll change at some point; there is still some glimmer there, I'm certain. Horns on bloodless, agreed. However, I've said it before and I'll reiterate my perspective on the lyrics- I don't understand people claiming of repetition, if you listen to the thing as a whole, it's certainly not a coincidence that the motifs keep coming back. I guess one person's cohesive is another's repetitive. |
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Post by forwardrob on Mar 7, 2009 9:59:10 GMT
The point I'm making about the lyrics is that you can have cohesion of motifs without wholescale repetition of words, lines or even stanzas.
Already at the second listen it's improving.
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Post by Lawrie on Mar 9, 2009 0:05:50 GMT
Expecting my copy of AVO to arrive in the post later this morning, but I just thought I'd give this thread a bump now we've reached D-Day!
March 9th, I love you! ;D
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Post by stumoo on Mar 9, 2009 0:18:40 GMT
Yup, today's the day! Watch this to celebrate: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrCR53jd1yQThe video really suits the music although obviously not originally made for this purpose. I was impressed. |
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Post by butler on Mar 9, 2009 10:04:00 GMT
I found that last week, but was worried the ban hammer would fall for posting it  Lovely piece of work though, and the song is really nice. Still no despatch notice from Amazon  |
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Post by blondeambassador on Mar 9, 2009 12:27:28 GMT
Ha...just put the CD in my itunes, I love the fact it identifies the genre as 'unclassifiable.' Nice!
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Post by Lawrie on Mar 9, 2009 13:53:15 GMT
Damn Amazon/Royal Mail - post arrived today with no AVO waiting for me like a long-lost friend!  Come on tomorrow! |
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Post by stumoo on Mar 9, 2009 13:57:26 GMT
Damn Amazon/Royal Mail - post arrived today with no AVO waiting for me like a long-lost friend! Come on tomorrow! Did you pay for delivery? I'm a total cheapskate so apparently mine wont arrive until the 13th  |
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Post by ant on Mar 9, 2009 13:59:56 GMT
Mine arrived via amazon today fine.. impressed they managed to get it here on the release date. Don't remember seeing the Apogee live at the Cargo on the Play.com tracklisting. However on viewing the video may contain shots filmed at the Cargo but the audio is not live just the studio version.. nice all the same. Presumably that was all they could salvage from the filming that was done.
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Post by Lawrie on Mar 9, 2009 14:06:38 GMT
Damn Amazon/Royal Mail - post arrived today with no AVO waiting for me like a long-lost friend! Come on tomorrow! Did you pay for delivery? I'm a total cheapskate so apparently mine wont arrive until the 13th Went for a free trial of Amazon Prime (which you've just reminded me I need to cancel before they tap me up for continuing with the service: ta!  ) which has One Day delivery. Ordered before the cutoff point on Friday, so it should've been here today: gits!  Hope yours makes it when you expect it, Stu! |
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Post by blondeambassador on Mar 9, 2009 14:08:38 GMT
And this, my friends, is exactly why I'm not down with this pre-ordering lark...
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Post by blondeambassador on Mar 9, 2009 14:44:21 GMT
Just watched the DVD...love the Nearfest footage, brilliant, wish they'd release the whole thing on DVD as that would be awesome. Rockpalast footage is...well, not them at their best if you ask me. A shame, because it's nice footage but Chloe is way too high up in the mix- that footage certainly wouldn't make me rush out to see them live, which definately doesnt reflect fairly on them especially not the way they are playing lately.
As for the Apogee on the end- I love it when they put those videos together, bit of tour footage, bit of live performance etc, I've always enjoyed those vidoes and this ones no exception! You can tell the Cargo footage itself was fairly...well, not good though, no wonder they didn't use it in full. And I managed to avoid any humilation which is good, none of our mugs feature which I think we'll all be relieved about!
So all in all, fairly pleased with the DVD but sort of wish Rockpalast hadn't gone onto it.
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Post by jemi on Mar 9, 2009 17:25:08 GMT
Actually, you can see Lawrie (and myself.. I think my fat head blocked you out, BA) in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it shot during Apogee
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Post by Lawrie on Mar 9, 2009 18:02:36 GMT
Aw crap, I was hoping there was zero crowd footage for the Cargo bit - I had a NASTY cold that night, and not really too keen on posterity recording my snivelling and wiping a runny nose all night.  I like the term, "blink-and-you-miss-it" though... |
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Post by jemi on Mar 9, 2009 18:45:53 GMT
For what it's worth, there was no nose wiping seen in the shot.  |
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Lovely piece of work though, and the song is really nice. 
) which has One Day delivery. Ordered before the cutoff point on Friday, so it should've been here today: gits! 
