Life in a Bubble Can Be Beautiful

Red Stars Theory - Life in a Bubble Can Be Beautiful

Life in a Bubble Can Be Beautiful
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Artist: Red Stars Theory
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1999-09-07
Music Label: Touch & Go Records
Soundtracks:
  1. How Did This Room Get So White
  2. Combinations and Complications
  3. Parts Per Million
  4. Boring Ghosts
  5. A Sailor's Warning
  6. September
  7. An Alarm Goes Off

Free Music Notes for Life in a Bubble Can Be Beautiful

Free Music Review: A beautiful and hypnotic opiate...
Hit: 5 Stars

This album is a wonderful piece to play late at night. For several years I played it while falling to sleep, which is something I rarely do, since most music is too distracting for me. However, this album can be listened to actively, but it seems to carry an even greater affect when played in the background for atmosphere.

Vocals are few and far in-between, but when sung they are low and breathy, almost like something you would hear in a low-key smoke filled music lounge. The guitar passages are delicate, simple, often have a high level reverberation, and are frequently repeated. The percussion is often absent, and when present is very minimal and filled with spaces of silence. Then there are string sections scattered about in a few of the songs, these are typically used to add a layer of droning mystery and pathos. Finally, the artists tastefully employ sound distortion, sound samples, and other effects; these contribute complexity and mood, and do not detract from the album. Often the effects have a fuzzy, warm, or warbling quality.

All of these qualities perfectly capture this band's view of life in a bubble: warm, narcoleptic, insulated, somewhere between conscious and unconscious, and vaguely conscious of the outside world (hence electronic effects that sound like heavily distorted radio signals). But there's more, this album portrays the bubble as something of beauty, but something that also carries deep currents of darkness and mystery.

I highly recommend this album. Great for late night activity, moments of solitude and reflection, or just an urge to listen to trippy, somber, low-key music.

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Like kicking fallen leaves on a chilled autumn afternoon, the songs on this record raise a quiet ruckus, unscrambling themselves with an often-beautiful faintness. Charting a wandering course through swooping guitar phrases and loosely structured mope rock, the music is in no hurry. In an age of rampant DJ tweaks and atmospherics, it's also a decidedly acoustic endeavor. The instruments are for the most part left lo-fi and intimate, though the sound is full of Tortoise-like depths and layers. Often turning on a short and arresting melodic concept, the band builds repetition around a variety of musical approaches. In "How Did This Room Get So White?" it uses revved-up feedback, building tension off a simple riff into high-arching crescendos of noisy rapture. More often, the group opts for the softer touches. A violin takes the countermelody in "A Sailor's Warning," wrapping around Lois Maffeo's sparkling guest vocal with a hushed assurance. Later, the dreamy riff at the center of "An Alarm Goes Off" anchors a shimmering background of whispering chimes and guitar-pedal mysteries. Perfect for celebrating summer's end, watching the colors change and the temperature drop in slow motion. --Matthew Cooke

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