Lightspeed Champion - Falling Off the Lavender Bridge
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Artist: Lightspeed ChampionEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2008-02-05
Music Label: Domino
Soundtracks:
- Galaxy of the Lost
- Tell Me What It's Worth
- All to Shit
- Midnight Surprise: My Time Spent Down the Lavender Bridge/Oh God, Reall
- Devil Tricks for a Bitch
- I Could Have Done This Myself
- Salty Water
- Dry Lips
- Everyone I Know Is Listening to Crunk
- Let the Bitches Die
- No Surprise (For Wendela)/Midnight Surprise
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Free Music Review: Great Fresh Release From an Ex Test-Icicle
Hit: 5 Stars
Lightspeed Champion is the "bandonym" of Dev Hynes, formerly of the noisy dance-punk band, the Test-Icicles. I'd never heard of the Test-Icicles before I heard this album, but let's just say that after hearing samples of their music, I know that I would never buy it. Hynes seems to be going down a much more mature musical pathway with this new endeavor. Lightspeed Champion offers a far more musical experience as we hear elegant song-writing, tongue-in-cheek lyrics and a full arsenal of instrumentation coloring the music. Hynes employs everything from strings, to winds, to pedal steel, to banjo, to mandolin, to organ. The album starts with a short intro-track that segues into "Galaxy of the Lost," a catchy poppy song that features a really great little guitar lick. Then we get "Tell Me What It's Worth," another great radio friendly single. Following that is a short interlude track, followed by the 10 minute "Midnight Surprise," which is a great well written epic, though it could use a few listens to really sense how it fits together. "Devil Tricks" is particularly creative, vocals accompanied almost exclusively by a string quartet, going back and forth from a pizzicato to bowed texture. Then the album takes another step to radio-friendliness with "I Could Have Done This Myself," which is followed by "Salty Water," using only piano and different weaving vocal parts in haunting harmonies. Then my two most favorite cuts, the driving "Dry Lips" and the fantastically sardonic break up song, "Everyone I Know is Listening to Crunk." I don't have to keep going track by track. You get the gist, this is some great, really creative stuff. Really every cut on this disc is incredibly wonderful. This one is one of those few albums out this year that I can't seem to get enough of (the other three so far are Bon Iver, The Punch Brothers and Plants and Animals, and I'm pretty sure that Vampire Weekend will make the list once I get my mitts on it). This music may not have the depth of something like Bon Iver, but it is certainly fun and well-written pop music. To say the least, I'm really excited to hear more from Dev Hynes.
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Stunning 2008 debut album from London based Dev Hynes, AKA Lightspeed Champion. Recorded in Omaha by Saddle Creek's resident producer, Mike Mogis, the album is a semi-acoustic Country-Rock Folk-Pop gem that bathes in Americana . Layered with ambitious instrumentation, from strings, to cello, oboe, pedal steel, clarinet and flute, it's a gentler more contemplative sound; light years away from the Noise-Punk Metal of Dev's previous act, Test Icicles. Backed by an informal band of multi-instrumentalists Nate Walcott and Mike Mogis, the Faint's drummer Clark Baechle, and guest vocalist Emmy The Great - plus moonlighting members of Cursive and Tilly And The Wall - Dev was able to furnish his gently humorous, open-hearted songs with an unaffected warmth. Domino.Alternative Rock Music CDs
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