Reset & Rewind
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Manic Drive Manic Drive's first album was released om 2005 with the lead single "Memories" making a splash and catching the ear of many, and why not, it was a blod declaration of faith rapped up in a catchy tune....
Storm The Gates Of Hell Deluxe Edition
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Demon Hunter Simply put this album is Demon Hunter's best album yet and one of the best this year in the metal genre. Never before has Demon Hunter played with such agression and brutality. This is evident from the...
Until June
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Until June I personally love this album. It excels both sonically and lyrically. Objectively speaking if you like piano pop/brit pop or bands like the fray and colplay then this album is for you....
Progressive but still no crashings. | Posted September-28-2007
Falling up is and has been my favourite band for a while. I was first mesmerized by the crunchy yet ambient nu-metal of "crashings" and was instantly hooked onto the band. Then came "Dawn Escapes" a more ambient album that lacked originality aside from the lovely piano ballads.
With this third release I was eager to see where falling up would go with their sound. Dawn Escapes was a good album but it was not as original and textured as Crashings. This new album falls in between the two. It's not as good as crashings but shows improvement over dawn escapes.
What seems to be the case here is that the band has decided to take the best elements of the first two albums and combine them together. There are some good crunchy guitar riffs ("Hotel Aquarium" and "Murexa) and some catchy electronica elements ("A guide to marine life" and "good morning planeterium"). It is worth mentioning though that while the above mentioned songs are good they lack the punch of songs like "Bittersweet" and "broken heart" of the first album. Add to that the not so interesting tracks such as "maps" and "helicopters" and you have an album that doesn't really top crashings.
What it does do however is show progression over "dawn escapes". All of the songs on that album had songs that mostly sounded the same and were only set apart by their piano melodies. Captiva corrects that with tracks that stand out and dont sound similar. You can find everything from ambient, to heavy, to poppish on this album and thats good.
Over all it is a great album and shows progression over dawn escapes as falling up move in a new direction but you will not be able to shake the feeling that this album is not as good as crashings.
First rate synthpop with faith based lyrics. | Posted September-28-2007
I normally don't listen to much synthpop, truth be told I haven't really looked to discover such bands but when I found out about this band, boy was it a good discovery.
The Echoing Green is a synthpop band that has been around for nearly ten years and their latest album "The Winter of Our Discontent" solidfies this band as a great indie synthpop band in the christian music scence.
But what sets them apart? Frontman Jeoey Bellville draws inspiration from similar sounding 90's bands such as depeche mode and crafts an album worthy of being called the best in the genre. No two tracks sound alike. The tendency with these kind of albums is that they can be repetitive with each song having the same repetitive beat (ever heard of a eiffel65 album?).
This Cd however stays clear of repitition and starts of with the bright and ambient "Story of our live", a song about the home of one day reaching heaven. From here the album trails into dark and murk territory in "fall awake" a track about watching a close lived one fall away and get lost in the darkness. The similar sounding "blind" explores the effects and downfall brough about by submission to sin. But whereas the album at times experiments with dark themes and sounds it equally makes up for it with bouncy synthpop songs ("Apology" and "starling") and ambient ballads ("someday and "winter"). It all sounds great and is sophisticated synthpop and elctronica.
The lyrical themes further add some depth to the album with songs of the hopefound in God while here on earth.
Overall this is a great album with a great sound and some very deep and hopeful lyrics.
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