And little post about James Holroyd

http://www.playgroun...optical-holyday

Positive review in Monday's Metro (free British newspaper given away on public transport), giving it 4 stars and calling the album "dance music in high definition".

lol mcmarsh! the monday metro just made my day. we having this tabloids over here too.

I wasn't sure how well known Metro is in other countries, although I think it's owned by a Swedish company!

There was another mention of the album in today's edition actually, recommended as a father's day present!! lol. Not the usual kind of music associated with such presents, but then I'm not a dad.

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mcmarsh, on 16 June 2010 - 11:42 AM, said:

We had Spanish edition of Metro until two years ago...another victim of the recession...

We have metro in France too.

Forgive the misspells and grammar, as my thoughts flowed freely on Wordpad!


KDB

Best track on the album! It has this felling of me surfing on a fast ocean current, or on a wet speedway. The bagpipe sound make the tune more glorious and fun. has a nice similiar sound of rockafeller skank! I get thoughts of the sun and sand on this track as well as visions of sunsets. This track is more summerish than Swoon IMO.

Another World

I listened to this song from atop of hill and looking down at the city , the buildings the sky, just looking down at the creation of
this world. I'M TOTALLY OFF THE PLANET WHEN I HEAR THIS SONG. The key that this song is in is just is perfect. Powerful, euphoric, the ending just made me die.

Dissolve

Another track that can be mistatkin for a live rock track, the last part should just be looped because of its drums
going insane. a beat that's addictive.

VID: Best vid on the DVD! goes perfectly with the track.pure grooviness with plenty of...groove!

Horsepower

Strength, buildup in the beginning, love that Delik sample that's used to. The song is like metal gears just grinding each other
producing this friction of industrial shrieks and 3:31 is a little stripped down, but its a onslaught in disguise, then it builds up again
and reminds me of some street cars doing sharp turns in tunnel, this gives it awesome noise.

VID: sometimes I wish the horse would transform into something like...?

Swoon

I get this beach and sunset concept again. but such a couples song to me, such a dance tune. It has grown on me since it came out/
There's a spirit of dance AND love in this tune. it has no boundaries to make other countries dance as well.If you ask
me, this track can be played when you wake up or when you are calling it in tonight. It can be a morning song or a night jam.

Snow

I know it's a track, but I like to consider it an intro to the new and improved sound and what the future will now sound like when the Chems are here. The lyrics 'your love keeps lifting me, lifting me higher' do mean something. IMo, the word 'love' is equal to the word to 'fans' So T and E are really saying that we (the fans) are lifting them higher and keeps lifting them. We are considered 'their' love.

EV: 2nd best track on the album!

VID: I like when shes staring at you, waiting for something to happen, and then your hurled into the cosmos, I love the the lighted tunnel though.At the end, I like how Caroline looks dismayed and confused and looks like she saying to herself 'what in the hell just happended!

Wonders of the Deep

A good track. i would like to see it live but it doesn't quite have closure that I expected

VID: Beautifully shot, just breathtAKING WHEN SHES Comes UP TO THE SURFACE.

Afterthoughts

I think this album is the most mature and probably the most personal from the bros. It's a toss-up though for the younger generation because they prefer the current ipod playlist and would might be difficult to get them to hear this album. It's like a kid reading an easy book from JK Rowling, but their not ready for a couple of pages of Joyce or Faulkner. The album directly cuts off the umbilical cord entirely of the dance-electro sounds that were all use to in the past, but stays true to the full psychedelic package similar to Surrender but has an adult formula. Further is the new blueprint for the next chemical records. it also conveys the message that the bros have been-there-done-that and have now started making music for the human listener and not the human trend.

Very nice review, inchem! I love the imagery you provided of Another World and looking out onto man's cityscape creation and the creation of the world in general.

inchemwetrust, on 01 July 2010 - 10:42 PM, said:

Best conclusion to a review, ever.

loved reading your review Earl, though I don't agree with Wonders of the Deep - it's magnificent - Snow and Wonders are mindblowing - can't get over them.

salvation, on 18 June 2010 - 08:35 AM, said:

Yeesh, that's a brutal review. Does slant always try to be so clever in its reviews? The pretension is pretty unbearable...

I find the slant review to be so funny because it complains that the music they produce isn't in line with what's popular or relevant today but it largely ignores the quality of timbre on the record, the composition and production, and the flow of the album. Pretty epic. XD

Meh, that slant review deserves a yawn. It's as boring as it accuses Tom and Ed of being.

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Wow. That's just crappy journalism. Way to go at reviewing something you didn't bother to review!!

Really, the more negative reviews I read (and I've read a lot of negative 'in print' reviews of the Chems post Dig Your Own Hole), the less inclined I am to care.

Negative and positive opinions alike - The opinions of fans and at the very least, people that are familiar with what Tom and Ed are doing, is worth more in weight than gold to me compared to this tired, cyberspace filling fluff that slant puts out.

These reviewers won't appreciate the albums as much as regular people, they just kinda have to listen to them, have some pretentious insightful knowledge of the group via google or a press release and move on to reviewing a kanye west album and doing the same formula, really devoid of any long deep thoughts. Music critics have always made bad calls on historical albums so obviously they make off ones all the time for the readers.

Sorry to repost, but I also had a second thought on whether uk reviews are more favorable than us hipster magazines (btw reminded me why I an glad I didn't renew Paste)

whirlygirl, on 04 July 2010 - 01:26 PM, said:

Me too—I concur with the yawn status that these type of interviews earn.

whirlygirl, on 02 July 2010 - 07:56 AM, said:

Thanx Whirls!

Random Further reviews, As described through my friends:

My male friend on Horsepower:
I feel like I should be riding a horse while listening to this.

My female friend while cooking in the next room and hearing EV:
(stops, walks into room) That is psychedellic, Can we play this with the Fireworks tonight?

My other female friend watching the DVD at the end of swoon:
Hey, Are the birds are going after them like in Hitchcocks 'The Birds'? (K+D+B starts) OMG IT IS THE BIRDS!!!

Rynostar, on 07 July 2010 - 08:47 PM, said:

I'm on a horse!



(sorry, this ad was the first thing I thought of when I read what your friend said about Horsepower!)

whirlygirl, on 08 July 2010 - 03:02 PM, said:

Ahh I saw this add for the first time yesterday! Best commercial ever for a very old product!