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▓█▀▄▄ Artist : Brandtson ▄▄▀█▓
▐▓▌▐█▌ Album : Hello, Control ▐█▌▓▌
▐▀▄██ Label : The Militia Group ██▄▀▌
▄███▌ Genre : Rock ▐███▄
▀███▌ Source : CD ▐███▀
▐▄▀██ Street Date : 2006-05-02 ██▀▄▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ Quality : 946 kbps / 44.1kHz / 2 channels ▐█▌▐▓▌
▓█▄▀▀ Encoder : FLAC 1.2.1 ▀▀▄█▓
▓███ Size : 317.56 MB ███▓
▀ ▀█▌ Time : 44:37 min ▐█▀ ▀
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██▌ 1. A Thousand Years 2:55 ▐██
██▌ 2. Nobody Dances Anymore 3:25 ▐██
██▌ 3. Earthquakes And Sharks 2:57 ▐██
██▌ 4. Denim Iniquity 3:23 ▐██
██▌ 5. Here We Go 3:27 ▐██
██▌ 6. Tapping The Vain 3:22 ▐██
██▌ 7. Cold War 3:57 ▐██
██▌ 8. Parallels 4:10 ▐██
██▌ 9. Stop Machine 3:25 ▐██
██▌ 10. Friend Or Faux 2:59 ▐██
██▌ 11. Lie To Me 3:23 ▐██
██▌ 12. Goodnight Sweet Prince 3:52 ▐██
██▌ 13. The Secret 3:22 ▐██
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████ Cleveland's Brandtson have built a career on a passionate ████
████ concoction of guitar-driven, emo-tinged indie rock. However, when ████
████ their bass player parted ways with the quartet in the summer of ████
████ 2005, the band did more than just add a new member to its ranks. ████
████ Embracing the change (and their new bassist's electronic ████
████ background), the guys entered the songwriting process armed with ████
████ a new vision for themselves, looking past the standard rock ████
████ structure of past efforts. Thus, placed among Brandtson's back ████
████ catalog, the resulting Hello, Control stands out as a ████
████ significantly different sounding and dance-ready album for late ████
████ nights and the subsequent early mornings after. The sparse ████
████ opener, "A Thousand Years," relies on a soft, dreamy landscape ████
████ with underlying synths, and hints at a slower version of what's ████
████ to come ahead. Things kick into high gear next with the scene ████
████ attack of "Nobody Dances Anymore" ù a seriously fun, ████
████ attitude-fueled dance-punk track complete with vocoder that ████
████ presumably reveals the primary reason for indulging in the ████
████ electro, booty-shaking side of things. For every party track, ████
████ however, there are also relaxing numbers like the spacy "Cold ████
████ War," "Goodnight Sweet Prince," and the introspective rock of ████
████ "Parallels." One of the album's best tracks, the breezy, ████
████ sparkling "Earthquakes & Sharks," is reminiscent of a ████
████ radio-friendly Modest Mouse and absolutely perfect for a sunny ████
████ day driving mixtape. Obviously, when a band drastically changes ████
████ its sound, many fans will be put off on mere principle alone. ████
████ People get personally attached to their expectations for a band's ████
████ music, and when those expectations are inevitably challenged by ████
████ slight experimentation, the response ù and record itself ù is not ████
████ always pretty. However, after the initial shock of hearing ████
████ hip-shaking beats, glimmering rhythms, and electro pulses ████
████ replacing a lot of Brandtson's typical guitar attack, Hello, ████
████ Control is a satisfying listen with much of the Brandtson of old ████
████ still very much present and kicking underneath the bright ████
████ polyester exterior. ████
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