If Reagan Played Disco
Saturday, July 09, 2005
The Isness
The Future Sound of London
Hypnotic
I don't know which musical experience is more satisfying; buying an album and immediately falling in love with it and every song on it, to the point that you play it over and over non-stop – or, buying an album, taking an immediate dislike to it and having it grow on you over a period of time, till you find it one of your favorite albums.
The latter was certainly the case with FSOL's latest album, where I purchased it retail after being unable to find it used or at least hear samples of it.
The first track, The Lovers is pretty straight-foward mellow FSOL. But subsequent songs had my jaw dropping to the floor ( or floorboards of my car, as the case may be) as the arrangements of the tunes unfurled.
Sitar!? - acoustic guitar!? - FRENCH HORN!? - SINGING!?
This is nothing like Dead Cities!
This is a full blown psychedelic album, with heavy nods to Donovan (who wrote the liner notes – which shoulda served as a warning), Prog-Rock and other relatively unknown British psychedelic musicians. It's obvious that Garry Cobain and Brian Dougan and have been been listening to lots of long lost singles from that era, as is evident from some of the DJ sets they've done for the BBC and Resonance FM.
It's hard not to compare this to Pink Floyd – especially for us Yanks.
But I'll be damned if it didn't grow on me and continues to be an album I sit and intentionally listen to, from beginning to end. It's the perfect album to listen to on a lazy Saturday afternoon, with the curtains drawn and your jukebox's lightshow turned on.
Hypnotic
I don't know which musical experience is more satisfying; buying an album and immediately falling in love with it and every song on it, to the point that you play it over and over non-stop – or, buying an album, taking an immediate dislike to it and having it grow on you over a period of time, till you find it one of your favorite albums.
The latter was certainly the case with FSOL's latest album, where I purchased it retail after being unable to find it used or at least hear samples of it.
The first track, The Lovers is pretty straight-foward mellow FSOL. But subsequent songs had my jaw dropping to the floor ( or floorboards of my car, as the case may be) as the arrangements of the tunes unfurled.
Sitar!? - acoustic guitar!? - FRENCH HORN!? - SINGING!?
This is nothing like Dead Cities!
This is a full blown psychedelic album, with heavy nods to Donovan (who wrote the liner notes – which shoulda served as a warning), Prog-Rock and other relatively unknown British psychedelic musicians. It's obvious that Garry Cobain and Brian Dougan and have been been listening to lots of long lost singles from that era, as is evident from some of the DJ sets they've done for the BBC and Resonance FM.
It's hard not to compare this to Pink Floyd – especially for us Yanks.
But I'll be damned if it didn't grow on me and continues to be an album I sit and intentionally listen to, from beginning to end. It's the perfect album to listen to on a lazy Saturday afternoon, with the curtains drawn and your jukebox's lightshow turned on.
# posted by Chardman @ 11:15 AM 
