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Matt Elliott - The Mess We Made
Genres: Singer-Songwriter, Electronic
Release Year: 2003
Seeing as this is the exact type of thing that the likes of tranny and Seg in particular would likely eat up, it wouldn't especially surprise me if I'm reporting on old news with this one, but The Mess We Made is one of most awesome, moody albums I've heard in ages. Landing sonically somewhere between Boards of Canada, UNKLE and Low, with an dreary atmosphere best compared to Radiohead's Amnesiac, it's about as unclassifiable as it is effective. RYM has it tagged as Electronic, Slowcore, Singer-Songwriter, Post Rock and Folk, which just about sums up its uniqueness, I reckon.Genres: Singer-Songwriter, Electronic
Release Year: 2003
The Mess We Made's eight tracks all tend to smudge together in a haze of unease, but the nine-minute centrepiece Cotard's Syndrome stands out simply because it takes the prize as the dreariest of all, and the brilliantly put together Spanish guitar-influenced closer Forty Days is also worthy of note and acclaim. Only The Sinking Ship Song really stands out at all for negative reasons - and even only then because as awesome as authentic accordion-laced sea shanties are, they're a little out of place on a record as ambiguous and grey as this one.
But if I know you guys at all, you love ambiguity and greyness, right?
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3 comments:
Just gave this a spin (well, since I was mentioned and all) and I think it's lovely. Minimal without trying too hard, all over the place without coming off as a forced medley. Repeated spins could prove to make this a monster.
and now for a completely opposite opinion - this isn't like Radiohead or Unkle or any of that. it sounds more like music for a funeral than anything I listen to regularly.
it's not *bad*, but it does come off as being a little contrived, trying to be as depressing as possible.
ahaha
well a 50% success rate isn't too bad, i guess
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