2011-4-23 23:11
tommyyang21
The Wombats - This Modern Glitch [Indie Rock]
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Artist: The Wombats
Title: This Modern Glitch
Label: 14th Floor
Genre: Indie
Bitrate: 258kbit av.
Time: 00:48:15
Size: 93.76 mb
Rip Date: 2011-04-23
Str Date: 2011-04-25
01. Our Perfect Disease 3:44
02. Tokyo (Vampires And Wolves) 3:45
03. Jump Into The Fog 3:52
04. Anti-D 4:41
05. Last Night I Dreamt... 3:32
06. Techno Fan 3:59
07. 1996 4:20
08. Walking Disasters 4:17
09. Girls/Fast Cars 3:35
10. Schumacher The Champion 4:50
11. Tokyo (Vampires And Wolves) (Acoustic Version) 3:57
12. Jump Into The Fog (Acoustic Version) 3:43
Release Notes:
Just as comedy actors, no matter how massive their crowd-draw or how
enjoyable their movies, stand a popsicle-in-Hell抯 chance of ever
winning an Oscar, it抯 virtually unthinkable that the second album from
Liverpool抯 The Wombats will grace the higher echelons of any
end-of-year polls or the Mercury shortlist. They cross too many boxes ?
they抮e shamelessly radio-friendly and insanely melodic, they have a
憌acky?name and they抮e simply too popular/ist to garner much of a
credible critical vote. On the contrary, that scraping sound you can
hear is the widespread music media dragging their shovels towards This
Modern Glitch intending to bury ?largely unheard and with extreme
prejudice ?the leading exponents of what the trolls have deemed
"landfill indie".
And what a travesty that burial would be. Because, for its genre ?
polished, uplifting, chart-bound electro indie-pop ?This Modern Glitch
is a flawless modern classic to file alongside Free All Angels by Ash,
Franz Ferdinand抯 debut and Hard-Fi抯 Stars of CCTV. Leaning more
heavily on synth blares and funk-disco beats than their
guitar-orientated debut A Guide to Love, Loss and Desperation, it抯
like a blast of musical Optrex to the face of 2011. It revitalises the
80s electro-funk-pop revival on the stunning likes of Our Perfect
Disease (hyperactive Hurts) and Walking Disasters (morose Marina). It
invigorates Naked and Famous-esque synth-pop with jubilant harmonic
whoops and trills on 1996 and Tokyo (Vampires and Wolves). And it
re-imagines The Verve抯 Bittersweet Symphony as an anthem of defiance
against personal (rather than social) tribulations on the
string-swaddled ode to singer Murph抯 anti-depressant addiction,
Anti-D.
And there抯 the kernel to The Wombats?popularity and (inevitable)
longevity. Sure, they sporadically live up to their cartoonish persona
by playing the ultimate Nuts readers on fuzz-punker Girls / Fast Cars,
or detailing a druggy night in a Hoxton trendster club on
single-of-the-decade contender Techno Fan, a song with a hook that抣l
punch through you like a jack-hammer. Yet there抯 dark, intriguing
depths to Murph抯 warts-and-all personal exposes that keep the songs
writhing like crawling creatures beneath the diamond dust. "Last night
I dreamt I died alone!" he wails over the Glasvegas space pomp of Last
Night I Dreamt; "We need some pop psychology to keep us upbeat," he
advocates on Walking Disasters, where two lovers find consolation in
mutual self-loathing. And when closer Schumacher the Champagne breaks
into the album抯 all-out-metal crescendo, Murph bellows The Wombats?
defining, defiant statement: "Take me as I am, or not at all!"
And take them you most certainly should. Those with their tongue fast
to the perineum of the zeitgeist will balk at such brazen,
unpretentious pleasures as you抣l find here, and more fool them. The
Wombats will never have the cult kudos of a Sufjan, the culture buzz of
a Jessie J or the critical awe of an Arcade Fire or Radiohead. But for
the flagrant pop thrill-seeker ?judging by this incredible,
irrepressible, ecstatic, brilliant record ?neither will they ever
disappoint. Don抰 believe the anti-hype: pop album of the year, by at
least a dozen choruses.
Limited Edition that comes with two previously unheard acoustic tracks.
Enjoy!
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