The Electric Soft Parade - No Need To Be Downhearted
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Artist: The Electric Soft ParadeEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-04-24
Music Label: Better Looking
Soundtracks:
- No Need To Be Downhearted (Part 1)
- Life In The Back Seat
- Woken By A Kiss
- If That'S The Case, Then I Don'T Know
- Shore Song / Surfacing
- Misunderstanding
- Secrets
- Cold World / Starry Night #1
- Have You Ever Felt Like It'S Too Late?
- Come Back Inside
- Appropriate Ending
- No Need To Be Downhearted (Part 2)
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Free Music Review: Outstanding Record
Hit: 5 Stars
This album is 100% top notch. I was unfamiliar with the band, but heard "If That's The Case, Then I Don't Know" on Pandora and was intrigued. The best thing about this album is that the songs and style change TREMENDOUSLY, but the structure of the album holds it together wonderfully. Starting out on a low key piano tune, you move through low-fi, reasonably hard rock, acoustic indie, and later a song that sounds almost exactly like "Don't Stop" of Fleetwood Mac. Excellently varied, and ends on an Abbey Roadesque acapella introduced wisdom. Really fantastic work.
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Their highly-anticipated full-length is epic and adventurous while retaining its pop shimmer. It follows their 2002 debut "Holes In The Wall", the 2003 release of "The American Adventure", and "The Human Body" EP, the latter of which was a perfect mid-point between their previous efforts and a teaser of greater things to come. With this new record they're at it again, this time as space-age power-balladeers and digital terrorist rockers.Thomas and Alex Wright, the brothers who formed Electric Soft Parade are unmistakably fond of guitars and keyboards braiding melodies in crafty twists, as they do throughout No Need to be Downhearted. Acoustic guitars, bells, and keys open "Shore Song Surfacing," while the brothers harmonize languorously, capturing a mix of pop and art not unlike the Beta Band and Super Furry Animals. Melodies emerge from shadows throughout Downhearted, from the plugged-in, clipped-riffs of "Life in the Backseat" to the lo-fi acoustic latticework of "Secrets," which sports this beaten-down lyric: "Keep your feelings well hid / They'll only get trodden on." Perhaps the subtle emergence of tunes is super-intentional, meant to mirror the band's lyrical fixation on isolation and alienation ("I wanna get rid of this feeling / I wanna be a part of everything / Like the way it all should be," goes the opening of "Cold World Starry Nite #1"). With the band's expert harmonies and crisp, economical use of guitar distortion along with keyboards, the cumulative impact is otherwise delightful, leading to head nods even while the Wrights sing from the fringes, from which they're trying to step forward. --Andrew Bartlett
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