Silverchair - Diorama
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Artist: SilverchairEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2002-08-27
Music Label: Atlantic / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Across the Night
- The Greatest View
- Without You
- World Upon Your Shoulders
- One Way Mule
- Tuna in the Brine
- Too Much Of Not Enough
- Luv Your Life
- Lever
- My Favorite Thing
- After All These Years
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Free Music Review: Greatest Australian Album of All Time
Hit: 5 Stars
A bold album deserves a bold claim and this masterpiece by Silverchair may just be the best album by an Australian band, ever. Funnily enough it semingly gets snobbed by the Australian media, most likely because of Daniel Johns inability to tour this album due to various ailments following the completion of the album. While it may be fine for Australians to laud ACDC, Cold Chisel and Skyhooks, it's time for a nation to wake up and realize that this album sparked the emergence of one of the greatest Australian frontmen since Michael Hutchence. Johns showed flashes of what he was capable of doing on the previous Neon Ballroom album with tracks such as Ana's Song, Emotion Sickness and Spawn Again, but put together the complete album on Diorama which shows few weaknesses. The album is full of melodic complexities and carries a fairly epic vibe throughout and the Van Dyke Parks orchestrations fit Johns compositions like hand and glove. It would be unfair to call the other members of the band a "backing" group, the unity of a group that has been playing together for well over ten years is apparent in the tightness of them playing and even more ovious in a live setting. Definite highlights on this album are "Tuna in the Brine", "World Upon Your Shoulders", "Too Much of Not Enough" and "Across the Night", they hearken back to their roots a tad on "One Way Mule" however it has a twist of maturity that was not previously seen in Silverchair rock.
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The early word was that Silverchair--who at one time could have adopted the hip-hop moniker Lil' Nirvana--on their long-awaited fourth album had morphed into the antipodean Radiohead. But that's a bit of a stretch. Diorama, the band's first release in three years, instead finds the Australian trio shedding the hollow teen angst and beefy riffs of its earlier records in favor of epic melodies, meaningful lyrics, and a markedly more refined sound. The results are staggering. Featuring an orchestra section arranged by Van Dyke Parks, "The Greatest View" is a sweeping and soulful anthem. "World upon Your Shoulders" is a Guns 'N' Roses-caliber power ballad--and that's no bad thing, either. And "Without You" exhibits a determined, gripping delicacy not seen since, well, the last Radiohead album. Another giant leap forward. --Aidin Vaziri2002 album including 'Across The Night', 'The Greatest View', 'Without You', 'Tuna In The Brine' and After All These Years' (includes the hidden track 'Outro'). This is an enhanced CD including the bonus short film 'The Making Of Diorama'.
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