The Beta Band - Heroes to Zeros
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Artist: The Beta BandEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-05-04
Music Label: Astralwerks
Soundtracks:
- Assessment
- Space
- Lion Thief
- Easy
- Wonderful
- Troubles
- Out-Side
- Space Beatle
- Rhododendron
- Liquid Bird
- Simple
- Pure For
Free Music Notes for Heroes to Zeros
Free Music Review: Brilliant, Genius, and Pure Art!!!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
Once in a while a good band takes a risk and tries something a little different. Sometimes it comes out great and becomes a classic, and at other times the sound becomes dated or it may be looked back upon as trendy. Look at Sgt. Peppers for example. Some insist that Sgt. Peppers is the Beatles finest moment. I disagree, I think it sounds trendy and has some great songs, but is not the Beatles finest moment. Look at Electric Ladyland by Jimi Hendrix. Some say this is the ultimate Hendrix album. I would be much more inclined to agree with that. It may have been his best album, and it's really a true piece of art in every respect, and it is looked back upon as a brilliant achievment. Look at the Moody Blues "Days of the Future Passed". An orchestrated pompous overproduced recording which became their finest moment. An experiment that is looked back upon as a piece of art by many music critics. I still love that album by the Moody Blues, but unfortunately I don't listen to much of their other stuff.
I chose the Moody Blues for a reason. They remind me of The Beta Band in a lot of ways. I don't know if they were an influence for the Beta Band's music, but I wouldn't be suprised. I always liked the Beta Band, but I never really felt that any of their work was a true piece of art in the sense of a timeless classic. That was before the release of "Heroes to Zeros". "Heroes to Zeros" may be one of those classics. I don't know for sure, you can't tell the future. I do know that it is a brilliant album and an all-time classic in my opinion. It's just a great album from start to finish. It's experimental because it's NOT EXPERIMENTAL by Beta Band standards. It's experimental because its more mainstream and more polished than their previous efforts. Normally this would have grave results, but in this case it works effortlessly and perfectly. That's what makes this an all time classic.
Congratulations to the Beta Band for keeping art alive in a time of junk music and big money garbage. Maybe the Beta Band are split up now because of money, album sales, or whatever. But look at bands like The Velvet Underground, whose albums didn't sell very well at the time and whose music was very underappreciated at the time. The Beta Band will be remembered in a very respectable, artistic and groundbreaking manner, and "Heroes to Zeros" will one day be referred to as "Zeros to Heros".
Heroes to Zeros Poster
With props in John Cusack's High Fidelity for their classic '3 EPs' and a much-lauded US tour with Radiohead, The Beta Band have established themselves as one of the most innovative and adored groups from the UK. Their third official album HEROES TO ZEROS captures the focused immediacy and power of their epic live shows, while maintaining the sample-tastic digital sorcery of their previous releases. Mixed by Nigel Godrich (Radiohead, Air, Beck). Features "Assessment".When the Beta Band first hit in 1998 with The Three EPs, the band seemed incapable of doing wrong with their infectiously murky, psychedelic mixture of contemporary electronic and early '70s stoner rock. Their songs seemed to fall apart as quickly as they came together, and this disposable quality made them classic, in a weird way. But while those EPs recalled the days of Canterbury prog without the silly Tolkein-isms, or the "Madchester" scene sans the nasty drugs, the group's music has slowly slid into a disparaging mediocrity since then; it seems that the harder the Beta Band tries to be a real band, the worse the result. The tunes on Heroes all have the same muddy sound, sung in the same mushmouth-y style. By 2004, the mantle of loose, weird and fun experimental pop seems to be firmly in the hands of groups like the Go! Team in the UK and the Animal Collective stateside. --Mike McGonigal
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