{"id":250,"date":"2006-08-02T14:47:35","date_gmt":"2006-08-02T13:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=250"},"modified":"2006-08-02T14:47:35","modified_gmt":"2006-08-02T13:47:35","slug":"sound-team-movie-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=250","title":{"rendered":"sound team &#8211; movie monster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text\/html; charset=iso-8859-1\"> <META content=\"MSHTML 6.00.2900.2912\" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE><\/STYLE> <\/HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>a strange album, especially for a  debut.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>if you judge this on the opening&nbsp;10 minutes  that you could be easily forgiven thinking that you have stumbled upon one of  the greatest indie rock-n-pop album of the year. but as is so often the case,  things are never that simple. hailing from austin, the band have toured with  critics arcade fire and are obviously hoping that their brand of piano, layered  guitars, heaven scraping melodies will win over the masses in the same way.  opening with the 1 minute brilliance of <EM>&#8216;get out&#8217;<\/EM>, and, following this  with the superb <EM>&#8216;born to please&#8217;<\/EM> it&#8217;s quickly apparent that the band  have a wonderful indie power pop chemistry going on. however, as the album  progresses, the bands urge to twist the&nbsp;genre beyond its normal  restrictions begins to be noticeable. none more so than on the albums title  track, which&nbsp;is based upon kraftwerk styled throbbing machine noise,  ambient synthetics and little else. thankfully, despite these sonic twists, the  band have managed to maintain the presence of tunes. just that for those that  like so called &#8216;real instruments&#8217; these 2 centre pieces are going to be&nbsp;the  cause&nbsp;of an excess of furrowed brows.&nbsp;this laid back piece of  gorgeousness is followed by the 6 minute krautrock groove of <EM>&#8216;tv torso&#8217;<\/EM>  which should keep the feet happy even if the brain isn&#8217;t overly impressed, and  when the guitars eventually kick in, so do the pleasure nerves.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>if you can get past these&nbsp;sidesteps in  style,&nbsp;the album falls back into the pattern of old school 70&#8217;s  keyboard\/electric piano loops, guitars and a whole lot of love. tracks like  <EM>&#8216;your eyes are liars&#8217;<\/EM> have more of those upfront tempos and melodies  that could win over radio playlist selectors, and there are more of the  multilayered productions such as the eno-esque treated guitars on &#8216;<EM>afterglow  years&#8217;<\/EM> and <EM>&#8216;you&#8217;ve never lived a day&#8217;,<\/EM> which are  both&nbsp;especially nice.&nbsp;<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>so this is an album that could quite possibly have  you smiling from ear to ear by the fourth listen. certainly did so for  me.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>good stuff.<\/FONT> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>really good.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>more detail : <A  href=\"http:\/\/www.soundteam.net\">here<\/A><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV><\/DIV><\/BODY><\/HTML><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 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