ARTiST: Numbers
TiTLE: Now You Are This
LABEL: Kill Rock Stars
GENRE: Indie
TiME: 48:21 min
SiZE: 71,1 MB
BiTRATE: VBRkbps
RiP DATE: Aug-17-2007
RELEASE DATE: Aug-21-2007
WEBSiTE: www.numbersband.com
Track List:
01. New Life 03:21
02. Mind Hole 04:33
03. Kosmos Love 03:05
04. Hey Hey Dream 03:28
05. Fantasy Life 03:42
06. I Ripped My Own Heart Out 01:40
07. Fly On The Window 04:27
08. The Mapping Of E8 02:44
09. Lone Life 05:49
10. Liela Mila 04:23
11. Everything Is Fine 02:46
12. I Want To Believe 03:55
13. What Happened To You 04:28
Release Notes:
Butterfly caught in a spiderweb. Shattered stained
glass windows. Three legged dogs. A black eye on
your best friend. There isnÆt an easy comparison for
the dire, wounded poise of this record, a secret
pact between beauty and fear. The songs are pensive
and worry-stained, all minimal, bluntly entrancing
riffs, insistent drumming, and tense, reverberant
synthesizers. The futuristic propulsion of Kraftwerk
filtered through the raw-knuckled roughness of
Suicide? Surprisingly, the most disquieting aspect
of the songs is their subtle charm; thirteen tracks
of dazed and charged near-collapse that
unexpectedlycatch in your mind, echoing their
haunted buzz for days and weeks after the record
ends. Not since The Silver Apples has a band so
successfully wedded a cacophony of electronic
keyboards with such a clear-voiced pop sensibility.
A significant part of this catchiness lies in the
vocals, in the floating, hypnotic lilt of Indra
Dunis and in the timeless, intuitive harmonies lent
by Eric Landmark and Dave Broekema. The weave of
their raw, upright voices lends a poignant,
unflinching and steady guide to the dogged, swirling
waves of sound that propels the record. Amid the
tumultuous, irresistible waves of sound that drives
the last minutes of the record, the entire world
seems to fall away in the face of these brave,
almost spiritual voices asking, ôwhat happened to
youà what happened to me?ö Such ache, such urgency;
Numbers draw a line from the honest clarity of
traditional American music like the Carter Family
through the troubled pounding of today, creating a
phenomenal, appropriately dark vision of tomorrowÆs
pop music.