Augie March - Sunset Studies
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Artist: Augie MarchEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2000-12-05
Music Label: Bmg
Soundtracks:
- Hole In Your Roof
- Maroondah Reservoir
- There Is No Such Place
- Tulip
- Tasman Awakens
- Believe Me
- Sunsut Studios
- Men Who Follow Spring The World Round
- Angels Of The Bowling Green
- Heartbeat & Sails
- Offer
- Good Gardner
- Here Comes The Night
- Asleep In The Perfection
- Owen's Lament
Free Music Notes for Sunset Studies
Free Music Review: Australia's best kept secret.
Hit: 5 Stars
Up until I heard this album, I was convinced of two things. One was that all australian music sucked and was completely unoriginal. (And I'm Australian). Since there's not so much money in the Australian music industry, major label money rarely gets thrown around on more original bands like Augie March.
Two, Australian bands were simply not capable of crafting something as sophisticated and as beautiful as OK Computer, Murmur, Moon Safari, Loveless, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, or any of the other modern classics we all know and love.
After hearing this album, I was proved wrong on both counts. This is simply a stunning, epic, haunting, quiet, peaceful, beautiful album that deserves to mentioned alongside any of the albums I just mentioned. And yet it's extremely different to all of them. If the likes of Radiohead and Doves are the masters of the wall of noise and dense arrangements, Augie March are the masters of quaint, calm, sparse arrangements - and yet they seem to evoke just as much emotion. It just goes to show that when creating music of haunting beauty, simplicity often works just as well as the bombastic, if not more so.
But the arrangements and sounds would be nothing without great songs. And this album has 15 classics. Glenn Richards' lyrics read like Wordsworth poetry, here are but a few examples.
"Blasted in appearance and a composite of fearful minutes frozen in a waking instant" (There is no such place)
"are you lit from the inside, is that why your teeth are bright?" (Tulip)
"You are the queen of the dustbowl, ex to the crier in a town of ashes" (Sunset Studies)
"Here sits a once good gardener/ pale as a shadow of a doubt/once a happy dweller of a garden good/ once a sleepy sinner/ once cast out" (The Good Gardener (on how he fell))
"What did the condemned say to the blessed when they met on the path? "Oh you take the low road and I'll take the high for a laugh." And if I'm nothing now it's because I've a gentle heart." (The Hole in your roof)
Seriously.
The fact that more people haven't heard this album is simply criminal. Do yourself a favour and buy it now, you won't regret it.
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