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▀ ▄████ Store Date.[ 2011-12-05 ████▄ ▀
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▀█▓▀ Url........[ http://www.hoodmusic.net ▀▓█▀
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█▓ Rustic Houses Forlorn Valleys ▓█
█▓ ------- ▓█
█▓ 01 S.E. Rain Patterns 9:46 ▓█
█▓ 02 Boer Farmstead 4:53 ▓█
█▓ 03 The Light Reveals The Place 6:59 ▓█
█▓ 04 Your Ambient Voice 6:58 ▓█
█▓ 05 The Leaves Grow Old And Fall And Die 4:21 ▓█
█▓ 06 Diesel Pioneers 13:01 ▓█
█▓ ----- ▓█
█▓ 45:58 ▓█
█▓ The Cycle Of Days And Seasons ▓█
█▓ ------- ▓█
█▓ 01 Western Housing Concerns 5:34 ▓█
█▓ 02 Hood Is Finished 4:12 ▓█
█▓ 03 //- 0:54 ▓█
█▓ 04 September Brings The Autumn Dawn 5:33 ▓█
█▓ 05 In Iron Light 3:36 ▓█
█▓ 06 How Can You Drag Your Body Blindly 5:48 ▓█
█▓ Through? ▓█
█▓ 07 Houses Tilting Towards The Sea 4:51 ▓█
█▓ 08 //- 0:38 ▓█
█▓ 09 Roads Lead Northwards 6:02 ▓█
█▓ 10 //- 0:59 ▓█
█▓ 11 ...The Cliff Edge Of Workaday Morality 4:44 ▓█
█▓ ----- ▓█
█▓ 42:51 ▓█
█▓ Cold House ▓█
█▓ ------- ▓█
█▓ 01 They Removed All Trace That Anything Had 5:20 ▓█
█▓ Ever Happened Here ▓█
█▓ 02 You Show No Emotion At All 5:14 ▓█
█▓ 03 Branches Bare 5:55 ▓█
█▓ 04 Enemy Of Time 3:22 ▓█
█▓ 05 The Winter Hit Hard 5:42 ▓█
█▓ 06 I Can't Find My Brittle Youth 3:11 ▓█
█▓ 07 This Is What We Do To Sell Out(s) 3:05 ▓█
█▓ 08 The River Curls Around The Town 3:23 ▓█
█▓ 09 Lines Low To Frozen Ground 5:15 ▓█
█▓ 10 You're Worth The Whole World 5:45 ▓█
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█▓ 46:12 ▓█
█▓ Outside Closer ▓█
█▓ ------- ▓█
█▓ 01 (Int) 0:39 ▓█
█▓ 02 The Negatives... 3:43 ▓█
█▓ 03 Any Hopeful Thoughts Arrive 6:55 ▓█
█▓ 04 End Of One Train Working 5:11 ▓█
█▓ 05 Winter 72 6:10 ▓█
█▓ 06 The Lost You 4:41 ▓█
█▓ 07 Still Rain Fell 4:46 ▓█
█▓ 08 L. Fading Hills 4:25 ▓█
█▓ 09 Closure 7:33 ▓█
█▓ 10 This Is It Forever. 2:36 ▓█
█▓ ----- ▓█
█▓ 46:39 ▓█
█▓ EPs Collected ▓█
█▓ ------- ▓█
█▓ 01 Useless 4:30 ▓█
█▓ 02 Home Is Where It Hurts 4:04 ▓█
█▓ 03 Cold Fire Woods Of Western Lanes 2:53 ▓█
█▓ 04 The World Touches Too Hard 4:51 ▓█
█▓ 05 Its Been A Long Time Since I Was Last 8:10 ▓█
█▓ Here ▓█
█▓ 06 Across The Lonely Writing Side 5:00 ▓█
█▓ 07 Painting The Town Dead 3:20 ▓█
█▓ 08 Ghosts By Japan 3:20 ▓█
█▓ 09 You Can't Breathe Memories 4:28 ▓█
█▓ 10 The Rest Of Us Still Care 4:52 ▓█
█▓ 11 By Island Lake (Excerpt) 1:50 ▓█
█▓ 12 Over The Land, Over The Sea 6:38 ▓█
█▓ 13 Squint In The First Light Of Day 5:23 ▓█
█▓ 14 The Sad Decline Of Home 4:41 ▓█
█▓ 15 The Fact That You Failed 6:28 ▓█
█▓ 16 The Sea Against The Sand 6:35 ▓█
█▓ ----- ▓█
█▓ 77:03 ▓█
█▓ The Hood Tapes ▓█
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█▓ 01 The Hurting World 2:56 ▓█
█▓ 02 Greydayer 1:49 ▓█
█▓ 03 When We Wait All The Tables 5:09 ▓█
█▓ 04 Driven Out By Angry Villager 1:37 ▓█
█▓ 05 Loss And L.E.D 1:42 ▓█
█▓ 06 Names For Rain 1:45 ▓█
█▓ 07 But I Was Only A Bystander 0:48 ▓█
█▓ 08 This Years First Storm 3:56 ▓█
█▓ 09 Maple 1:44 ▓█
█▓ 10 Winter Politics 2:05 ▓█
█▓ 11 Sad Neck 3:52 ▓█
█▓ 12 None Of The Above 3:52 ▓█
█▓ 13 Leave Like The Ghost You Are 1:14 ▓█
█▓ 14 Photographers 5:37 ▓█
█▓ 15 Winter Will Set You Back 3:55 ▓█
█▓ 16 Late Farming 1:38 ▓█
█▓ 17 You Shins Break My Heart 5:53 ▓█
█▓ 18 Having The Loudest Hailer 4:41 ▓█
█▓ 19 Guess My Age 2:26 ▓█
█▓ 20 Hymn To The Hill 5:52 ▓█
█▓ 21 The Second Thought Abandoned 2:55 ▓█
█▓ 22 Before We Get Swept Away...... 4:28 ▓█
█▓ 23 Stone And Height 2:24 ▓█
█▓ 24 Points Of Disintegration 1:43 ▓█
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█░█▒ including 4 albums, singles, rarities and a full ▒█░█
█░█▒ disc of the previously unreleased "Hood Tapes"* ▒█░█
█░█▒ Epic, unbeleivably good compendium of Hood's work ▒█░█
█░█▒ for Domino - containing some of the most beloved ▒█░█
█░█▒ music for us here over the last 15 years. The set ▒█░█
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█░█▒ Valleys', 'The Cycle Of Days And Seasons', 'Cold ▒█░█
█░█▒ House' and 'Outside Closer' - plus a compilation of ▒█░█
█░█▒ the band's Domino EPs, as well as 'The Hood Tapes', ▒█░█
█░█▒ a 24 song bonus CD of rare, previously unreleased ▒█░█
█░█▒ recordings pretty much worth the cost of admission ▒█░█
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█░█▒ a relaxed hiatus following 2005's Outside Closer, ▒█░█
█░█▒ are one of many bands that should have been ▒█░█
█░█▒ deservedly famous. Then again, one gets a feeling ▒█░█
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█░█▒ circumstance would have been contrary to everything ▒█░█
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█░█▒ personal musical heroes as Talk Talk, Bark ▒█░█
█░█▒ Psychosis, and Disco Inferno, brothers Chris and ▒█░█
█░█▒ Richard Adams, plus a continually rotating group of ▒█░█
█░█▒ supporting players, went from a pleasant if ▒█░█
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█░█▒ box set Recollected makes clear, the end results ▒█░█
█░█▒ can be described almost in no other way. It's not a ▒█░█
█░█▒ full career overview-- that would have meant a ▒█░█
█░█▒ literal doubling in the size of the set, counting ▒█░█
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█░█▒ albums, a one-disc collection of singles and EPs, ▒█░█
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█░█▒ Closer tour CD, The Hood Tapes, plus liner notes, ▒█░█
█░█▒ photographs, and further details. ▒█░█
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█░█▒ touring membership of Third Eye Foundation's Matt ▒█░█
█░█▒ Elliott, Rustic Houses, Forlorn Valleys, their full ▒█░█
█░█▒ length Domino debut from 1998, was seen at the time ▒█░█
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█░█▒ Finished" acts as both in-joke and summary: The ▒█░█
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█░█▒ Anything Had Ever Happened Here", set against a ▒█░█
█░█▒ still understated but more cleanly energetic ▒█░█
█░█▒ performance from the group, there's a clear sense ▒█░█
█░█▒ of having turned a corner. The feeling of real ▒█░█
█░█▒ dislocation as aesthetic move was now fully clear, ▒█░█
█░█▒ a more frenetic, in-the-moment atmosphere ▒█░█
█░█▒ complementing and sometimes disrupting but never ▒█░█
█░█▒ overwhelming the calm they'd already established. A ▒█░█
█░█▒ song like "I Can't Find My Brittle Youth" is almost ▒█░█
█░█▒ them in anthemic Wedding Present territory but in ▒█░█
█░█▒ "You Show No Emotion At All" they had a perfect ▒█░█
█░█▒ single showcasing their latest approach-- crisply ▒█░█
█░█▒ propulsive, poised, and still reticent, guitars and ▒█░█
█░█▒ keyboards as pinpoint touches and horn arrangements ▒█░█
█░█▒ as a further startling glaze around a poised vocal ▒█░█
█░█▒ performance about concern and distance. ▒█░█
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█░█▒ If Outside Closer turns out to be the final album ▒█░█
█░█▒ Hood release, then it found them building on Cold ▒█░█
█░█▒ House's new balance extremely well-- if "The ▒█░█
█░█▒ Negatives..." was, again, at heart, a softly sung ▒█░█
█░█▒ contemplation, its arrangement was practically a ▒█░█
█░█▒ soul stomper in context, with shimmering samples ▒█░█
█░█▒ and melodies swirling throughout. "Winter 72" and ▒█░█
█░█▒ "Closure", in turn, worked with techniques clearly ▒█░█
█░█▒ inspired by dub while the stellar "The Lost You", a ▒█░█
█░█▒ kaleidoscopic collage of beats and shifting ▒█░█
█░█▒ arrangements, found Hood just as indebted to ▒█░█
█░█▒ Timbaland as to Disco Inferno's Ian Crause or Talk ▒█░█
█░█▒ Talk's Mark Hollis. Earlier glitch fascinations ▒█░█
█░█▒ continued elsewhere on songs like "Any Hopeful ▒█░█
█░█▒ Thoughts Arrive" with further depth and detail, ▒█░█
█░█▒ arrangements building steadily into dramatic ▒█░█
█░█▒ conclusions. ▒█░█
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█░█▒ The EPs collection mostly covers the latter half of ▒█░█
█░█▒ the period, starting with 2001's "Home Is Where it ▒█░█
█░█▒ Hurts", capturing the group in a transitional space ▒█░█
█░█▒ and continuing through the B-sides for "The Lost ▒█░█
█░█▒ You" and "The Negatives...", including fine songs ▒█░█
█░█▒ such as "The World Touches Too Hard", "Over the ▒█░█
█░█▒ Land, Over the Sea", and "Across the Lonely Writing ▒█░█
█░█▒ Side". A key number is at the start, however-- ▒█░█
█░█▒ "Useless", a 1997 vinyl A-side that many fans ▒█░█
█░█▒ consider the band's best, capturing their Disco ▒█░█
█░█▒ Inferno fascination for the unexpectedly anthemic ▒█░█
█░█▒ with a mix of rough guitar, very Crause-like ▒█░█
█░█▒ vocals, and a low-key woodwind melody. The bulk of ▒█░█
█░█▒ The Hood Tapes covers rough and ready sessions ▒█░█
█░█▒ following Outside Closer, less detailed but as ▒█░█
█░█▒ always exploring various acoustic/electronic ▒█░█
█░█▒ combinations, with further rarities including the ▒█░█
█░█▒ lovely tour-only single "Winter Will Set You Back", ▒█░█
█░█▒ a rare dip into full acoustic/string waters, and ▒█░█
█░█▒ the split-single effort "You Shins Break My Heart", ▒█░█
█░█▒ an engaging interpolation of Talk Talk's "New ▒█░█
█░█▒ Grass"'s core arrangement into their own approach. ▒█░█
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█░█▒ It's a bit overwhelming to take in all at once, and ▒█░█
█░█▒ each disc's strengths almost come out better in ▒█░█
█░█▒ isolation. But as a welcome and well-deserved ▒█░█
█░█▒ overview, Recollected covers the continuing ▒█░█
█░█▒ evolution of a band that, having established a ▒█░█
█░█▒ strong identity over time, then proceeded to ▒█░█
█░█▒ transform it to avoid repetition of what it'd ▒█░█
█░█▒ already achieved. Would that more performers could ▒█░█
█░█▒ be so bold, and secure enough in themselves to feel ▒█░█
█░█▒ that taking a break is no bad thing. ▒█░█
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█░█▒ --Ned Raggett (pitchfork.com) ▒█░█
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█░█▒ http://www.hoodmusic.net ▒█░█
█░█▒ http://www.dominorecordco.com ▒█░█
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█░█▒ Note: Track 1 (The Hurting World) on Disc 6 (The ▒█░█
█░█▒ Hood Tapes) cuts off abruptly. It is like this on ▒█░█
█░█▒ other pressings as well as on the oringal release ▒█░█
█░█▒ of The Hood Tapes. Other tracks on this disc also ▒█░█
█░█▒ end a bit abruptly as they are rough versions of ▒█░█
█░█▒ songs. Enjoy! ▒█░█
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