Artist......: The Movies
Album.......: In One Era Out The Other
Source......: CD
Label.......: Houston Party
Genre.......: Indie
Tracks......: 10
Bitrate.....: 630 kbps avg
Playtime....: 00:26:57 (126.MB)
Rls date....: 2021-06-11
Store date..: 2002-11-18
Encoder.....: FLAC 1.3.1
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01 Right Equipment 2:21
02 Secretariat 2:03
03 Creation Lake 3:14
04 Scary Footsteps 2:17
05 Don't Steal My Licks 2:05
06 Truth Knocking 3:33
07 Autograph 1:43
08 Pass The Music 2:33
09 Midnight Bloody Murder 2:43
10 A Better Life 4:25
The Movies are one of the new wave of new wave revivalists. They stake out
a claim to the softer sound of the era. Unlike a band like Interpol, who is
mostly doom and gloom, or the Strokes, who are revved-up rockers, the
Movies mostly stroll through the autumnal shadows humming a simple tune.
The ten tracks on In One Era and out the Other are short, angular, and
mostly mid-tempo, with stabbing keyboards and upfront basslines. The lyrics
don't make much sense for the most part, but are suitably gloomy and weird.
On the few up-tempo tracks, like "Don't Steal My Licks," vocalist Timothy
James is a dead ringer for a caffeined-up Ric Ocasek as he jitters and
yowls through the up-tempo tracks. When the band slows it down a little,
James relaxes his vocal pose a little and the band is much more pleasant to
listen to. "Secretariat" is even pretty in a Pavement-esque way, and "Pass
the Music" is calm and jangly sounding, like an outtake from the Cars'
Panorama. "A Better Life" features some fine keyboard work by Brian Cleary;
he helps to fill out the rather thin sound of the guitar-bass-drums lineup
throughout the record. The Movies overall sound pretty derivative but shows
flashes of promise here and there. If you are a new wave of new wave
revivalist who is out to collect all the new records you can, don't
hesitate to pick this record up.