April 27, 200916 yr Downloaded this last night.... SERIOUSLY good album, there's little flashes of their original style, but I reckon it works incredibly well with the new direction that the band are clearly taking... I personally saw nothing wrong with "Strange House", but, they probably couldn't really continue down that sort of Cramps/Meteors copyist path for too long anyway, and now they've actually found their sound, and it's really rather astounding.... At the same time this sounds like a lot of bands from the late '80s/early 90s, but also not sounding at all like anything else around these days, quite a tricky feat to pull off, but they've done it as well as Interpol managed to sound both like Joy Division/Bauhaus, but not taking it literally.... A trick the likes of White Lies could certainly do with learning tbh.... Here's hoping White Lies, Editors and a few others listen to Primary Colours and take notes..... Portishead's production is merely the icing on the cake, Primary Colours would still kick ass even without it..... This may actually go down as being one of "Grim's Albums of 2009".....
April 27, 200916 yr I've downloaded it, will listen to it soon. Not really expecting much. I love 'Sea Within A Sea' but I hated the singles I heard off the first album and I'm far from being a fan of Portishead either...
April 28, 200916 yr I've downloaded it, will listen to it soon. Not really expecting much. I love 'Sea Within A Sea' but I hated the singles I heard off the first album and I'm far from being a fan of Portishead either... I think you're gonna be surprised actually... This really doesn't sound at all like "Strange House"... Pretty much all the more cartoony-horror rock, Cramps-alike stuff has been excised to be replaced by some pretty blissful sonic experimentation which actually puts me in mind of stuff like Jesus and Mary Chain, early Verve and My Bloody Valentine..... I can imagine this stuff sounding absolutely awesome live at a decent venue with a good PA..... It's incredibly rare to get such a change from a debut to a second album like this....
May 2, 200916 yr I saw them live last night. Sea Within a Sea was epic. The lead singer frightened me at times. Noel Fielding was therez. ;o
May 8, 200916 yr Trent Reznor reccomends this. Guess that means with the Trent seal of approval, you'll be d/l ing this..... :lol: :lol:
May 8, 200916 yr Guess that means with the Trent seal of approval, you'll be d/l ing this..... :lol: :lol: i downloaded this when it leaked lol, ive been loving it before Trent :P
May 22, 200916 yr The more I listen to this album, the more impressed I become by it... I'm getting a bit sick of certain "reviewers" who big-up the contribution of Geoff Barrow.... OK, he's a factor, sure, but no more a factor than Martin Hannett was in the greatness that was Joy Division.... And no one talks down what Joy Division or Ian Curtis did do they....? And, frankly, there are some songs on this album that give me absolute shivers down my spine, the same sort of shivers I get when I listen to Joy Division... I mean, just listen to the absolutely colossal tune that is "I Only Think Of You"... I mean, it's like Faris has suddenly become possessed by the ghost of Ian Curtis... The effect of that song is absolutely frightening, hypnotic, dreamy and then utterly dark as fukk; on an album of bloody great songs, it's this one that really stands out for me.... This is not only one of the greatest albums of the year, I reckon it's probably one of the half dozen or so greatest Indie/Alternative albums of the bloody DECADE..... As a dyed-in-the-wool Goth, this is probably one of the most Gothic (in the artistic sense..) albums I've ever heard..... The spirit of Bauhaus/Joy Division/Velvet Underground/The Birthday Party has almost certainly been conjured up here.....
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