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Don't get me wrong, Immi (as her friends call her, and I'll gratuitously include myself in that lot since I did listen to LFO on her iPod) does more than sing and Guy does more then fiddle with knobs but it wasn't until their writing of "Flicks" that they decided to form Frou Frou and be more than just a performer and a producer (Guy produced I Megaphone's lead-off track, "Getting Scared"). "Flicks" lyrics ironically parallel the story of my own relationship as "a flicker of the future could've saved the cindered sister ... the ones to come feel too far to care." The song rises up from a simple electronic loop and Immi's vocals slowly adding a drum beat, guitars, and a swirling trumpet before layering three levels of the vocals. "Let Go" opens the disc with a rather peaceful and building string section as Immi asks for the deciding word on the future of a relationship, "It's alright cause there's beauty in the breakdown." First single "Breathe In" made modest waves here in the States and slightly larger ones abroad with its unusual guitars and drum beat. "It's Good To Be In Love," the album's decided highlight, is deceptively a love song as its bright melody masks the true nature of the song, "It's good to be in love / it really does suit you / just like everything / I'm happy you're in love / Cause every colour goes where you do." In concert, Frou Frou take out all the digital trickery and leave this number as a solo piano piece illustrating that their compositions can hold the same emotional pull, if not more so, without the assistance of technology. The haunting "Psychobabble" with it's stalker imagery ("Do just what I tell you and no one will get hurt") would send chills down the most secure of spines. Its string section builds to add tension, handbells clang, the distant resonance of the bassline, the precise quietness as the waterphone takes the solo all create truly one of the most terrifying songs I've heard without resorting to shrieking or any other instrumental/vocal histrionics. And while "Psychobabble" is more produced than all the other tracks it is the fact that it keeps the sounds to their natural elements that makes it all the more powerful. The simple "The Dumbing Down Of Love" closes off the disc and is primarily a solo piano piece with only the slightest dabbles of reverb and effect thrown in for weight. A string section slowly works its way into the mix as does a trumpet adding their appropriate blend of magic and mourning

To examine these pieces individually really does injustice to their album as a whole because with Details Frou Frou creates more of an atmosphere rather than standalone songs. A mature atmosphere deeply soaked in vibrant hues slowly darkening with the realization of a broken heart. In "The Dumbing Down Of Love," Imogen exclaims, "music is worthless unless it can make a complete stranger break down and cry" and before you know it that's what happens, the heart coated in deep purple tears as the disc unknowingly trails off like a conversation left hanging in the air ... the last conversation in a failed romance ...

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