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█▀ ▓██▀ ARTIST...[ Robin Guthrie ▀██▓ ▀█
█ ▓▓██ TITLE....[ Everlasting EP ██▓▓ █
▄ ▓██ LABEL....[ Rocketgirl (RGIRL46) ██▓ ▄
▓██▄ GENRE....[ Instrumental Rock ▄██▓
▓███ ENCODER..[ LAME.v3.90.3 ███▓
▄██▓███ K/BITS...[ 204 kbps avg ███▓██▄
▓████████ MODE:....[ Joint Stereo ████████▓
▓███▀▀ ▀██ TRACKS...[ 4 ██▀ ▀▀███▓
▓▓██▀ ██▄ █ TIME.....[ 16:58 █ ▄██ ▀██▓▓
▓███ ██▓█ ▓ SIZE.....[ 26.33 MB ▓ █▓██ ███▓
▓▓█ ▄█▓▓█ ▒ SOURCE...[ CD ▒ █▓▓█▄ █▓▓
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▓▓▓█ ▒░▒▒▒ RIP.DATE.[ 2006-09-07 ▒▒▒░▒ █▓▓▓
▓▓██ ░░░░░ REL.DATE.[ 2006-07-24 ░░░░░ ██▓▓
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░ ▒▓█ ▓██ over the course of only four songs, this former ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ cocteau twin has managed to rope me back into ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ being a fan after continental-the disappointing ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ lp released earlier this year ██▓ █▓▒ ░
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░ ▒▓█ ▓██ continental was a very sad album to listen ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ through start to finish. to me it was like ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ listening to somebody whose heart ached for ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ that special someone to return and fill the ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ void left behind when they departed. there was ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ an emptiness right down the middle where ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ something else belonged. while robin is not ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ joined by a lead vocal for everlasting, there's ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ a considerable amount of space filled in, ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ making these four songs a far better listen ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ than the 10 on the lp ██▓ █▓▒ ░
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░ ▒▓█ ▓██ "bordertown" opens the ep with a lush texture, ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ and although it's rich and serene, the melody ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ is quite repetitive and unjoined by opposing ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ elements before the refrain. "fountain," the ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ other upbeat song on the disc has the ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ sprinklings of organ and keyboard sounds that ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ are new for me to hear on his works, and not ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ offensive in the least. guthrie is a fantastic ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ gearhead: he still manages to achieve the best ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ sounds possible and finds the perfect balance ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ between all of the elements. as a composer, ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ however, he is clearly still holding on to the ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ verse-chorus-verse school of songwriting, which ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ isn't necessarily a bad thing, but if there's ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ anything we've learned from the 1990s is that ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ there are more challenging approaches to take ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ when left without a singer ██▓ █▓▒ ░
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░ ▒▓█ ▓██ while it's far more enjoyable than continental, ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ the problem still remains: there's no denying ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ this sounds like a cocteau twins record without ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ simon and liz. although the music has more ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ counter-melodic elements, even on the sparse ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ closer "everlasting" and the victorialand-era ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ sounding "a sigh across the ocean," the ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ sing-along-ability of a lead instrument is ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ simply not here as well as the chugging bass ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ lines which drove the best cocteau twins songs. ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ it kind of makes me wonder if all these songs ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ from the lp and ep weren't started in the hopes ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ for a cocteau twins reunion following that ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ ill-fated live festival appearance which never ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ took place ██▓ █▓▒ ░
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░ ▒▓█ ▓██ i do have hope, however, as it sounds like ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ robin may have accepted the fact that ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ continental sounded very lonely. he's joined on ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ everlasting by collaborators on three out of ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ four songs, so with any luck this trend will ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ continue and something magnificent will come ██▓ █▓▒ ░
░ ▒▓█ ▓██ out of him. i'm not giving up ██▓ █▓▒ ░
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