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Artist | Steve Mason
Title | Meet The Humans
Genre | Indie Format | Album
Source | CDDA Time | 48:08
Label | Double Six Recordings Store | 2016
Catalog | DS107CD Rip | 2016
Bitrate | 253 kbps Size | 91.77 MB
Freq | 44.1 kHz Encoder | Lame 3.98.4
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01. Water Bored 3:48
02. Alive! 4:17
03. Alright 4:48
04. Another Day 3:46
05. Ran Away 3:49
06. To A Door 4:14
07. Hardly Go Through 5:17
08. Through My Window 4:50
09. Planet Sizes 4:18
10. Like Water 4:02
11. Words In My Head 4:59
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The songscrap producer and haunted vocalist who made the Beta Band one of
the brightest lights in Great Britain's post-Brit-pop world, Steve Mason
was born in Edinburgh and formed the group during the mid-90s. The Beta
Band was originally a duo consisting of Mason and Gordon Anderson, although
Anderson left the lineup shortly thereafter and the group coalesced around
Robin Jones on drums, John Maclean on keyboards, sampler, and turntables,
and Richard Greentree on bass. From that point onward, Mason served as the
group's unofficial leader.
After the intensity and sheer breadth of 2013's politically charged "Monkey
Minds In The Devil's Time", Steve Mason returns with his most cohesive and
fully realized solo effort yet. In a deliberate step away from the thematic
sweep of his first two solo releases, the former Beta Band and King Biscuit
Time maestro uncorks a set of pop songs that stand proudly as independent
pieces, yet make for an even greater whole. Produced by Elbow's Craig
Potter, "Meet The Humans" manages to distill Mason's lush melancholia and
maverick pop acumen into 11 strong tracks that refer to his two decades of
recording while delivering something new.
The album opens with the warm embrace of "Water Bored", an inspired bit of
polyrhythmic, piano-led melodicism that introduces a more hopeful and
resolved artist than on his prior solo output. Echoes of the Beta Band's
nonconformist post-Brit-pop can be heard in the beats and tones of "Alive",
which revives Mason's relationship with the melodica, and "Words In My
Head", the album's darkly epic closer. A live band feeling ignites the
horn-laden "Another Day", and the buoyant Kristina Train-aided "To A Door"
confronts death with a heady confidence that makes it feel like the
centerpiece of the whole collection.
Mason's hushed voice is in fine form throughout and Potter's production
style draws from his own band's romantic landscapes, complementing the
material well. The impeccably crafted tension and relief on "Planet Sizes"
are classic Steve Mason as he builds the pounding, minor-key verses into a
beautifully glimmering chorus, cleverly toying with the listener's
emotions. Fans of any of Mason's earlier projects will find something to
love on what is easily the gifted popsmith's best solo effort to date.
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