a r t i s t : George
t i t l e : A Week Of Kindness
d a t e : 2005
l a b e l : pickled-egg
g e n r e : Indie
r l s. d a t e : Feb/2010
t r a c k s : 15
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 63,3 MB
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'A Week of Kindness' is the second album from the Manchester
musical magpies. Their haunting anachronistic sound, heard in
2003's resoundingly successful debut album 'The Magic
Lantern', resurfaces from its own very distinctive musical
world. GeorgeÆs adventures in bricolage gather strength in
their new record, a coherent miscellany of bric-α-brac
electronics and clockwork melody. It proffers to the listener
the saddest, prettiest songs about early surgical cinema,
living in memory or a fearful search for joy, that they will
hear for a long time. The old-style "partners in chime"
[Sleazenation] wish to sing their hearts out to you!
"ThereÆs a massive tension in their music, starkly minimal
with something nasty threatening to emerge, like a shattered
wine glass in a costume drama dinner party. Nervous keyboards
played like a school assembly recital; gentle but jagged
rhythmic guitar strumming; strong, wavering voice like a mean
-drunk Sandy Denny echoing around the big, dark hall. I can
imagine all of their songs taking place in a microcosm of some
phantasmagorical stately home; first a song for looking out
from the upstairs balcony on some doomed frosty morning, then
they add some pre-recorded voodoo drumming to evoke some
guilt-fuelled Dionysian tryst in the spring-blooming garden.
Maybe D.H. Lawrence had nightmares like this sometimes..."
[Ben Haggar, Plan B]
(www.pickled-egg.co.uk)
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01-The New and Better Heart [02:10]
02-My Fear Keeps God A Hiding [02:46]
03-The Living Sound [04:17]
04-Week Of Wonders [05:19]
05-Now You Want To Settle Down [05:21]
06-Vanishing Sounds Of Britain [01:31]
07-Sunday Painter [04:22]
08-Spend My Time [04:05]
09-Song Of Degrees [03:36]
10-Fabula [02:42]
11-Supercharge [02:36]
12-Closest Of All [02:35]
13-Joy Could Be Here [04:09]
14-This Will Not Stop [03:42]
15-Older Too [04:14]
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53:25 min