Mistle_Thrush-Super_Refraction-CD-FLAC-1997-401

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     Artist......: Mistle Thrush
     Album.......: Super Refraction

     Source......: CD
     Label.......: Egg
     Genre.......: Indie


     Tracks......: 11
     Bitrate.....: 835 kbps avg
     Playtime....: 01:07:47  (416.MB)
     Rls date....: 2021-03-15
     Store date..: 1997-09-23
     Encoder.....: FLAC 1.3.1
     Url.........:



     01 Stupid Song                                                      3:13
     02 Moth-Like                                                        4:02
     03 It's All Like Today                                              5:01
     04 Yellow Day                                                       4:27
     05 51 Pegasi: Rocketship V.2                                        2:40
     06 Do You Know This Bird?                                           3:07
     07 All Mirror Thing                                                 3:40
     08 Train Song                                                       4:52
     09 Escapades In Glass                                               4:23
     10 Sha Sha                                                          5:57
     11 Making Salt With Sunshine                                       26:25



     Super Refraction managed the neat trick of combining several different
     strands of indie pop and other music in one place. "Stupid Song" itself is
     a lovely purΘe -- Todd Demma's drums suggest post-Madchester baggy funk,
     Valerie Forgione's singing calls to mind early Cranberries without the
     stridency and more sly cool, the cascading guitars are neo-psych/shoegaze
     mania, the quieter parts of the arrangement are a touch Portishead-tinged.
     That may all sound like a recipe for disaster for some groups, but in the
     hands of the quintet it becomes a rich vein to draw on, and more often than
     not tunes like "Train Song" come up trumps as flat-out winners. If
     anything, Super Refraction almost suggests an alternate path for
     alternative rock if the Nirvana breakthrough hadn't happened -- no brutal
     grunge and plenty of spirited dabbling, helped very well by Kurt Ralske's
     fine co-production with the

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