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▐▓███▓ Respira - A Still Silhouette ▓███▓▌
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▓██ ░▀████▄ GENRE...........: Indie ▄████▀░ ██▓
▐█▀▀ ▄████▓▌ RELEASE DATE ...: Feb-22-2004 ▐▓████▄ ▀▀█▌
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TRACKS
TiTLE TiME
[01] Like A Piece Of Bent Machinery [05:27]
[02] Healthy Kids [06:20]
[03] Thinning Threads [07:45]
[04] Hoping At A Steady Pace [03:33]
[05] Fit To Panic [07:53]
[06] I'm A Hypocrite And A Liar [06:47]
[07] Streetlight To Streetlight [04:54]
[08] Cuts In The Shape Of A Star [04:37]
[09] Into The Dust [04:54]
[10] A Still Silhouette [08:37]
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[60:47]
COMMENTS
Respira's A Still Silhouette lends a furious
dignity to being young and in pain. From the
frenetic opening of "Like a Piece of Bent
Machinery", to the heartwrenching closing of
"A Still Silhouette", the album is a musical
cartography of adolescent darkness. A lesser
band attempting to create the same emotive
mood might have sounded like an after-school
special. And admittedly, what A Still
Silhouette lacks are the string or piano
arrangements that made Respira's earlier EP,
Empty Spaces Dressed as People, so
promisingly haunting. Yet Respira's
sophisticated musicality still propels the
material away from any possibility of cliche.
The songs are riveting, with quiet
interludes, distorted AM radio, intricate
guitar work, explosive drums and their
trademark innocent trickle of xylaphone notes
(check out "Healthy Kids", an audience
favorite). After playing local clubs,
releasing independent EPs, and building a
considerable following in the county since
1999, Respira spent December recording with
Theory of Ruin's Alex Newport and Barsuk
Records' John Vanderslice at Tiny Telephone
studios. It was in San Francisco's Tiny
Telephone that indie rockers Death Cab for
Cutie and At The Drive In recorded their
earliest albums. If their predecessors are
any indication, Respira has a promising
future.
THE CREW
▄ "We will never change ▄
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