ARTIST: Num9
TITLE: El Baile
LABEL: Acuarela
GENRE: Indie
SOURCE: CD
BITRATE: 186 kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 38:01
RELEASE DATE: 2009-00-00
RIP DATE: 2009-10-12
Track List
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1. El baile 4:28
2. The mermaid 4:30
3. La venganza 4:46
4. In the mourning 3:31
5. Become you 5:07
6. El vampiro alemßn 3:54
7. Fears 3:21
8. El desencuentro 4:02
9. Ron 4:22
Release Notes:
Num9 are strange and intoxicating, theyÆre introspective, slightly dark, rather
mysterious and delightfully impossible to describe. Think New Order or maybe
even Pet Shop Boys for the avant post-rock audience. Layers of analogue sounding
synths, swollen contentment, sweet fluctuations, stark interludes, spoken word
passages, beauty that pushes buttons, warm delight, ambitious, delightful.
"The Dance" is about love and the confusion caused when sexual desire makes sex
seem better than it actually is and better than it will ever be. Following this
thread Coque Yturriaga, David Unison and Jordi Sancho risk and dare to employ
various weapons: Samples of favorite movies, hypnotic arrangements and a myriad
of rhythms ranging from catchy to warm, always offering a sense of false climax
and anticlimax. The title song features a vocal collaboration with American
singer/songwriter Dawn Landes over music inspired by 80Æs Chicago House. "El
Vampiro alemßn" is an instrumental free fall that can remind of the most
incisive and passionate Primal Scream. Just two examples within a very
conceptual and tight album.
There are marimbas, a tribute to Dr. Mabuse and winks to Talk Talk and The Blue
Nile. Noise, violins, violence, beauties becoming beasts and vice versa all find
redemption via technology that gives goose bumps. "The Dance" is a kind of
electronic diary in which, thanks to the grace of pop we may share the feelings
of ones who never dance: they are expecting something that will never arrive
unless they make a step forward toward the center of their lives under a mirror
ball that spins again and again...
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