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Why bands like Alient Ant Farm can get airplay and ESP, like the Charlatans before them, are destined for obscurity in America is beyond me. I saw them play in London a few weeks ago and they put on a good show. If I had a car I would want to hear this as I drove out of Manhattan towards the beach on a hot summer weekend.
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I like this album, but I think it may sound better if each of the instruments were played by a separate person. It doesn't have a live feel, since the whole thing is a mix of the two brothers playing all the instruments.
Also, I've found that on each song on the album: they start out singing a line of verses before the chorus, then, instead of singing a line of new verses, they sing the same old one...over and over and over again. It's really lyrically boring.
I was generous with the 4 stars just for the fact that all the new music that is played on radio in America is total trash. At least this has a different sound.
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Wow, you can hear the influences coming through.. Beach boys, Boo Radleys, Supergrass, Ash, even Air are in there somewhere. The Electric Soft Parade have boiled them all up with a touch of inspiration and produced a fantastic british pop record. Its got the tunes and its got some great ideas too. Even though they wear their influences on their sleeves, they seem to have come up with something totally new and fresh. I can't stop playing it. Cheers Guys!
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The best thing about this is the way your sister picks up all the words from the next room without even knowing the band's name, any of the song titles or having any previous interest in any of the music you like. 9 out of 12 tracks are original, spunky and perfectly produced to leave a really stylised, yet still cutting edge sound. The only disappointments are the three cloying ballads (It's Wasting Me Away (Track 5), Sleep Alone (Track 7) and Red Balloon For Me (Track 12)) that serve as reminders of why this band need to look before they leap in the future. I have also seen them live, and this facet of the band will be telling if they are to become the equivalent of Ash or Supergrass for the new millenium's Brit pop and rock lovers. They stank when I saw them, but I have the faith in this fine collection of sing-along anthems-in-the-making to expect that we will see more of the White brothers.
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This is a very good album. It is great to know that there are good new groups out there. You get a nice mix of American rock and the more calm British rock. Hopefully these young artists will get better with age, although they can't improve too much. Track 6 - "Silent To The Dark" is a great song to sing along to, I have heard the song maybe 3 times but I cannot get the chorus out of my head. I agree with a previous reviewer, that this is the best release of 2002 so far, hopefully it will be a good music year.
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