Shiny Toy Guns - Season of Poison
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Artist: Shiny Toy GunsEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2008-11-04
Music Label: Universal Motown
Soundtracks:
- When Did This Storm Begin
- Money For That
- I Owe You A Love Song
- Ghost Town
- It Became A Lie On You
- Ricochet!
- Season Of Love
- Poison
- Blown Away
- Turned To Real Life
- Frozen Oceans
Free Music Notes for Season of Poison
Free Music Review: I love the Shinys' evolution...many people have not, but I have...
Hit: 5 Stars
Yes, it looks like this AMAZING band's evolution is throwing a few people into a tizzy. Fans of electronic dance music??? The thought of the Shiny's going guitar heavy...like the anti-Christ has landed...sheesh!!! I've seen the band live, and this record, "Season Of Poison", is a logical next step, considering what their live attack is really like. They are basically a rock band with electronic dance flourishes. The first album (3rd version...I need the first 2) emphasized the latter...SOP emphazises the former...simple as that.
BUT, there are electronic elements strewn throughout. I love the band's guitar-heavy powerpop tunes like "Money For That", but also "I Owe You A Love Song", which sounds like a cousin of "Rainy Monday"...they fit nicely together on "Seaon Of Poison", really they do.
Also, I feel their proggy experimentation pays off too, as in "Poison", the inbetween pipe organ interlude, and "Blown Away", which wouldn't be out of place on a Gabriel-era Genesis album...and it works!!!
The only thing that threw me was "Ricochet!!", but it, too, grew on me, and the album flows beautifully from beginning to end...it's meant to me listened to in that order, NOT picked apart for singles or the order changed around...this album proves that track sequencing is just as important to an album as the songs themselves.
Now, I thought Carah was great, but she seemed to be not one with the band, for some weird reason...with Cicely, the band actually gels better as a UNIT...
As classic as V.3 of "We Are Pilots" is, I think, in a way, "Season Of Poison" is better...a true work of art and one of THE finest records of not just 2008, but the entire DECADE, a spectacular achievement...
No other band could pull off what the Shinys did...meld heavy guitar powerpop, electronic synthpop, and progrock, as a seamless artsistic whole without sounding gimmicky...
Also, if this album was basically "We Are Pilots" V.4, I would have been VERY disappointed, and would have felt the band was stuck in a stylistic rut...I hate when bands repeat themselves (with a coupla exceptions...AC/DC & the Ramones)...I am HAPPY the Shinys evolved and shook things a bit, whether people love it or not...bands NEED to evolve in their own way, so boohoo on the haters and fans who just wanted WAP over and over, and want Carah (not their first choice of singers BTW) back in the band!!! BTW, she left on her own accord, to move on with her life...she was NOT thrown out and there was no ill will or bad parting of ways...
I am now anxious for their next live shows and what the Shinys will pull out of their magic hat for the next album-go-round...
WOW!!!
Season of Poison Poster
"Season of Poison" is the highly anticipated sophomore album from Shiny Toy Guns. The album is the follow up to their critically acclaimed Grammy nominated debut record We Are Pilots which was released in 2006. The band spent the better half of 2 years on and off the road progressing their dance/rock and electronic roots. Once again producing the album by themselves, founding members Chad Petree (vocals, guitar) and Jeremy Dawson (synthesizer, bass) used 2008 technology to marry dynamic late-70's style synthesizer programming with face-erasing stoner rock; gently spreading this over layer upon layer of ethnic and tribal rhythms. Not to mention their keen pop sense in lyrics and arrangement have collided with the legendary mixing abilities of super-engineer Andy Wallace to create a completely new color in the future-forward musical spectrum. The first single off of Season Of Poison is "Ricochet", a heavy rhythmic guitar laden song already being heard on radio stations across the nation.
Season of Poison marks an evolution for the band not only sonically but in the band dynamics as well. Sisely Treasure from the band Cooler Kids replaced departed vocalist Carah Faye Charnow who left the group this past summer to pursue other interests. Dawson explains, "We moved forward with our initial choice for co-lead singer of the band in 2002, longtime friend Sisely Treasure. At that time she was still locked into her Dreamworks Records deal with her former project Cooler Kids and we were not able to professionally move forward with her. So we have returned to the exact original idea and lineup that Shiny Toy Guns was meant to be." With a new singer who is also now a writing partner to Petree and Dawson, Treasure brings in whole new complimentary perspective to the band. The result is a hard rocking, groove shaking album that will appeal to die hard Shiny Toy Guns fans and new ones alike.
The mercurial foursome (which also includes Mikey Martin on drums), has been described as everything from 'glam-goth-new wave-chic' to 'electronic mash-up with a dance floor destroyer,' thanks to their riveting breakthrough single "Le Disko" which topped the charts in 2006. The playful dance-anthem permeated radio and clubs, was featured in advertisements for Motorola and Apple and was a single of the week on iTunes' playlist. The band also was a "MTVU Freshman Five Artists for Fall 2006" as well as a MTV and MTV2 Discover and Download artist. They appeared on several television shows such as The Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Conan O'Brien and Jimmy Kimmel Live. The positive attention and legendary live shows led to an incredible accolade for the band, a Grammy nomination for Best Dance Album this past year.
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