ARTiST: Julian Plenti
ALBUM: Julian Plenti Is... Skyscraper
BiTRATE: 197kbps avg
QUALiTY: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.97 Final / -V2 --vbr-new / 44.100Khz
LABEL: Matador
GENRE: Rock
SiZE: 55.83 megs
PLAYTiME: 0h 37min 21sec total
RiP DATE: 2009-08-01
STORE DATE: 2009-07-31
Track List:
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01. Only If You Run 3:48
02. Fun That We Have 3:41
03. Skyscraper 3:19
04. Games For Days 3:57
05. Madrid Song 2:07
06. No Chance Survival 4:04
07. Unwind 3:18
08. Girl On The Sporting News 2:52
09. On The Esplanade 3:40
10. Fly As You Might 3:57
11. H 2:38
Release Notes:
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Julian Plenti may well be Skyscraper û whatever that means û but he'll be better
known to you as Paul Banks, British-born frontman of Joy Division wannabes
Interpol, whose recycling of new-wave cliches hoisted their album Our Love To
Admire to a top-3 chart position a couple of years back.
Compared to the slick, glacial sheen of Interpol's songs, however, these eleven
offerings have the distinctly lo-fi, half-finished character of demos, despite
the occasional caress of strings or the fanfaring trumpet that tries to lift
"Unwind". The album opens with the heavy breakbeat-style drums, arpeggiating
guitars and softly glowing organ of "Only If You Run", Banks claiming how he's
"tasted degradation and found the lace and daylight", before a stilted guitar
figure heralds the mantra-like "Fun That We Have". Sparse piano chords, high
string whines and spoken-word samples collude in "Madrid Song", and there's a
pleasing burst of raggedy Neil Young-ish guitar burning in "Fly As You Might";
but several songs suffer from poorly-wrought switches of momentum, most
glaringly in "Unwind", which vacillates between forthright, fuzzchord-organ
stomp and limpid lacunae of peace, abruptly derailing its progress just as it
seems to be finding its groove. More intriguing than Interpol, just.