ARTiST: The Shadow Project
TiTLE: A Beauty To Fight For
LABEL: NR ONE Records
GENRE: Ambient
TiME: 57:30 min
SiZE: 85,9 MB
BiTRATE: VBRkbps
RiP DATE: Jul-03-2007
RELEASE DATE: 00-00-2007
WEBSiTE: www.theshadowproject.com
Track List:
01. All The Pretty Things 06:33
02. Never Come Down 04:58
03. We Found Ourselves... 01:45
04. ...And All Is Fine 03:51
05. Being Here (So Confusing) 06:24
06. Accept What You Destroy 06:15
07. A Beauty To Fight For 06:29
08. Voices 05:17
09. Your Sky's On Fire 06:51
10. Don't Be A Stranger 09:07
Release Notes:
Reared and engineered in the Suffolk outback, The
Shadow Project would probably be the last people
you'd envisage being able to capture the
less-than-idyllic subtleties of a claustrophobic ciy
mixed with a yearning for wide open spaces into just
over three-quarters-of-an-hour's worth of
mind-bogglingly gorgeous music.
As mesmeric as any exponents of the much-maligned
post-rock genre you care to mention, A Beauty To
Fight For bleeds ambition, despair and an ultimate
desire to push itself one step further with every
passing moment.
Comparisons with other artists are always going to
be inevitable, and obviously the likes of A Silver
Mt. Zion (minus the unnecessary marathons), Sigur
Ros and Los Planetos Del Agua all spring to mind for
various reasons. The former and latter for daring to
breach all rules and conformed expectations, the
more feted Icelandic quartet for being able to make
their guitars say infinitely more than a thousand
words ever could, or would even need to. The fact
that Mandy Parnell, so instrumental in the creation
of (), is on mastering duties here may also be of
some significance.
Vocals, then, if you haven't gathered already, are
quite sparse across this record - opener 'All The
Pretty Things' glides along like a pebble across a
tranquil sea, before building rapidly into a hushed
mantra of "It's not gonna save us now!", sinister
but simple.
Elsewhere, the glacial 'We Found Ourselves...' and
'...And All Is Fine' follow each other like a
two-part serial, while the closing epic that is
'Don't Be A Stranger', complete with samples of the
tide coming in at Felixstowe, is the perfect
accompaniment to a sunny day of peaceful oblivion.
The only downside here is that The Shadow Project
may find themselves dismissed as being just another
post-rock act, but give A Beauty To Fight For at
least half a dozen listens, as another new horizon
emerges with every one.