Artist.......: Blind Divine
Album........: Devouring the Beautiful
Label........: n/a
Genre........: Trip-Hop
Catnr........: n/a
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: Oct-28-2005
str.date.....: XXX-XX-2005
quality......: VBR/44.1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: http://www.blinddivine.com
track title time
01. Something Magical 03:08
02. Sometime Soon 03:11
03. Home 03:24
04. Never Say Goodbye 02:34
05. Funagerie 03:11
06. Thief 03:55
07. More than Love 04:16
08. Thy Will Be Done 02:59
09. Pain 02:09
10. Pretty Weed 03:19
11. Just to Be with You 04:53
12. Return to Flight 04:07
13. Time 03:43
14. Angels Have Wings 02:45
15. Got to Be Free 02:26
16. Soul Supreme 03:51
17. Confession 02:12
18. Bittersweet 02:47
19. Delicious 04:28
20. Honeysuckle Vines 03:52
21. Darling 03:19
22. On Phone 02:00
23. Revelations 05:23
Runtime 77:52 min
Size 102,4 MB
Release Notes:
With a history that contains a number of fairly
impressive licensing deals for both film and
television, Arizona's Blind Divine shine on
Devouring the Beautiful. Compiling a whopping 23
tracks (nearly 78 minutes) culled from their
recording career, including half a dozen tracks
from the feature film Orphans and Angels, the
band's proper CD debut blends sultry trip-hop and
mellow, moody rock with ethereal overtones. Fronted
by the sensual and melodically interesting breathy
vocal work of Paula Catherine Valencia, the band's
sound is anchored by multi-instrumentalist and
visual artist Daniel Martin Diaz with a few
additional musicians lending their talents. The
disc as a whole, while varying somewhat
stylistically, is exceptionally sonically
consistent. Highlights here include the spectacular
opener, "Something Magical", and "Sometime Soon",
perhaps the disc's most radio-friendly offering
featuring a particularly emotional and memorable
chorus. The brief moody trip-hop of "Never Say
Goodbye", the semi-ethereal and melodically lovely
"Thief", the spectacular reverb-drenched "Just to
be with You", and the slightly dissonant production
of "Confession" stand out, as well. The bass-heavy,
sonically dense and chaotic "Honeysuckle Vines" and
the beautiful "Darling" are also noteworthy,
despite the latter having but one single repeated
verse. A few other tracks stand out largely for
straying from the album's sonic formula. "Home"
throws a bit of lounge jazz saxophone into its
ethereal trip-hop dub frame. "Angels Have Wings" is
a nice, percussion-less acoustic guitar based
ethereal rock track that, perhaps, recalls Love
Spirals Downwards. The disc's two closing tracks
are also, notably, instrumentals, with "On Phone"
being a piano-centered ethereal piece and
"Revelations" an airy, haunting ambient wash.
Sometimes recalling artists like Massive Attack,
Portishead, Sneaker Pimps, and Tori Amos and at
other times slightly reminiscent of Akira Yamaoka's
work from the later Silent Hill soundtracks, Blind
Divine's Devouring the Beautiful is a lovely outing
with careful attention paid to sonic elements and
production. Fans of the aforementioned artists or
moody ethereal trip-hop in general will likely find
this cohesive compilation exceptionally strong and
worthwhile with both mainstream and underground
appeal.