Soft - Gone Faded (c) 2007 Lightyear Entertainment
Artist....: Soft
Album.....: Gone Faded
Type......: Album
Source....: CDDA
Tracks....: 11
Genre.....: Indie
Label.....: Lightyear Entertainment
Catalogue#: LTY 54814
Encoder...: LAME 3.97
Quality...: VBR kbps / 44.1KHz / Joint-Stereo
URL.......: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:a9fyxzehldje
Tracklist:
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01 Gone Faded 02:23
02 Higher 03:47
03 You Make Me Wanna Die 03:47
04 Droppin 04:28
05 Dumb Blood 03:14
06 Great Spirit 04:16
07 Ten Times Strong 03:10
08 Gold 03:37
09 Hundred Days 04:00
10 Ring On 04:08
11 Hot Club 03:46
Total:66,0 MB / 40:36 min
Release Notes:
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If South are the second coming of both New Order and Stone Roses, then
Soft completes the revival by embodying the sound of the Madchester
scene's Ride circa Nowhere era. Gone Faded is a twelve track collection
featuring shoegazer guitars and a polite madchester rhythm section. The
results are a dreamy pop adventure remniscent of some of the best Ride
albums. The lead single features, Droppin, features a slow guitar
buildup to a mean bassline culminating in a simple drumbeat while the
lead singer's lyrics lament an ex-girlfriend that drops in and out of
his life. Its a great track. The rest of the album contains heavenly
guitars over danceable basslines and drumbeats. Its an album you'll
constantly be tapping your foot to and is one of the year's best
albums. Other standout tracks include Great Spirit, Gone Faded, Ten
Times Strong, and You Make Me Wanna Die.
Lambasted by the indie rock community as being pretentious because the
band formed early in 2004 in Brooklyn and holed themselves in storage
unit honing their songs before they played any real gigs, I personally
think the approach is both reasonable and sensible. Look past the
backlash and find one of the albums of the year.
FINAL SCORE 9.5
From
http://indierockupstart.blogspot.com/2007/12/record-review-soft-gone-fa
ded.html