Phantom Planet - Raise The Dead
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Artist: Phantom PlanetEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2008-04-15
Music Label: Atlantic
Soundtracks:
- Raise the Dead
- Dropped
- Leader
- Do the Panic
- Quarantined
- Ship Lost At Sea
- Demon Daughters
- Geronimo
- Too Much Too Often
- Confess
- Leave Yourself for Somebody Else
- I Don t Mind
Free Music Notes for Raise The Dead
Free Music Review: Great outing by a band with a proven track record
Hit: 5 Stars
Phantom Planet has once again displayed their excellent musicianship and song crafting abilities in flying colors (Tonal colors literally do fly all over the place here). Overall, Raise the Dead is a much more consistent, and confident album than their last self-titled foray. Drawing from a host of fail-safe influences (ranging from David Bowie, Blur, Led Zeppelin and The Allman Brothers to The Beatles & Talking Heads no less!) there are more ear catching melodies floating in this sauce than can be reasonably be consumed in less than a few listens. Luckily, with the production value of the recording, the lush, smart arrangements and modest 43:12 playing time this turns out to be quite an engaging experience.
Like others have noted before me, this album sees them balancing their saccharine pop tendencies with their wish to live up to the old rock greats grit and grime. With only a few minor exceptions, they have managed to weave all these influences together in a surprising collage of sounds. For anyone who doesn't believe that the boys who wrote "California" could possibly lay down the big beat, check out track 8, "Geronimo" and you may be as impressed as I was with it's giant riffs that feel like a throwback to some of the best heavy rock from the 70s. Elsewhere on the disc, you can hear the quirkiness of Bowie's album "Heroes" creep in, especially on the track "Ship Lost At Sea" which includes a jagged rhythm enhanced with some wild drum machine effects sprinkled on top of the songs circus-like meanderings. "Do The Panic"s main hook has managed to be so infectious that I had to stop listening to the record for a while to clean my brains slate for fear of going insane. I suppose that me being a sucker for a good motown beat may be a factor, but that's besides the point! Definitely one of the highlights on this disc.
I can't really find much to fault on this album, almost all the songs are engaging from start to finish with the only possible exception being "Too Much Too Often" (I must also say this song has finally grown on me and I can now thoroughly enjoy it without much to pick at). What a nice balance they managed to achieve on this record, apparently due to an extensive pre-production process they went through, proof-reading and dropping more than 100 songs to arrive at the golden 12 offered here. Hopefully their recently announced hiatus won't result in them never releasing an album again, yet if this is the way they have to go out, Phantom Planet certainly can feel proud for ending on such a creatively high note and for having such an intriguing recording career, something many artists could only wish and hope for.
*This is really more a 4.5/5.0 to be fair, but I don't feel the 5 mark is too far off.
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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