Raise The Dead

Phantom Planet - Raise The Dead

Raise The Dead
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Artist: Phantom Planet
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2008-04-15
Music Label: Atlantic
Soundtracks:
  1. Raise the Dead
  2. Dropped
  3. Leader
  4. Do the Panic
  5. Quarantined
  6. Ship Lost At Sea
  7. Demon Daughters
  8. Geronimo
  9. Too Much Too Often
  10. Confess
  11. Leave Yourself for Somebody Else
  12. I Don t Mind

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Free Music Review: Risen from the dead as it were
Hit: 3 Stars

Ok, I'm a huge Phantom Planet fan. Been with them since I heard "The Guest". Yes, "California" was the first track I heard, however it was on the radio almost a year before The OC aired so when I say I'm a fan it isn't because of some commercial vehicle they attached themselves to. I even somewhat enjoyed the self-titled album they put out. It was different, but it worked in my opinion to bring together a type of ordered chaos.

With that said, this album is just weird. I'm not really sure where they wanted to go or even where they are heading. "Phantom Planet is Missing" is the closest thing this album resembles, but even that would be pretty innacurate.

It seems that they took a bunch of songs that should have been on "The Guest" and added in some old school flavor to create this amalgom of a sound. It isn't bad by any means, but it is a pretty draastic departure in terms of the sound. Like I said before, the lyrics are actually more along the line of "The Guest" rather than the self-titled and that is a good thing since the self-titled was a little shallow in terms of writing.

Overall though, the album is just really hard to classify and being a fan of their older stuff really doesn't help all that much here. I would honestly recommend this to fans of bands like JET or Panic! At the Disco rather than older Phantom Planet fans. Those folks will probably get more out of it.

There are a few good songs here, but not much to get excited about. I guess this album dropped silently because of that fact. Or maybe it was because they left Epic and went to Fueled by Ramen where they do blend quite well along side the new Panic! album. As much as I would like to Highly Recommend this album, I can't.

Two and a half stars.

Raise The Dead Poster

RAISE THE DEAD is Phantom Planet's fourth full-length collection,
following 1998's highly-praised PHANTOM PLANET IS MISSING,
2002's THE GUEST (which included the now-classic California,
known far and wide as the theme song to Fox's The O.C.), and 2004's
PHANTOM PLANET. The band started production on the new disc
eighteen months ago, eventually paring down 120 tracks written and
30 tracks recorded to the final 12. The result is an album that effortlessly mixes the band s sixties pop influence with a modern slant that s extremely refreshing in today s increasingly homogenous musical landscape. With RAISE THE DEAD, whether you decide to explore the cultinfluenced iconography or just want to listen to the songs on a purely visceral level, it s hard to deny that it was worth the four year wait

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