128 1/2 Days

Droom | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 28, 2003)
• Original Release Date: October 28, 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: A Different Drum
• ASIN: B0000W65KM
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #526,682 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Stay!

2. A Thousand Ghosts

3. Broken Kisses

4. Face To Face

5. Trust?

6. Paint the Sky

7. Wedding Day Dream

8. Frozen

9. Passion Junkie

10. Real

11. While We Can

12. Eyes Like Oceans

13. Sugar Crash

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The new revolution in dark Synth-pop, November 8, 2003

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shervin nooshin (Helotes, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 128 1/2 Days (Audio CD)

What can I say.......

I have been waiting for this release for about a year now and its finally here.
Droom is a band that made my jaw hit the floor when I first heard their music. I don't think any band has ever made me as excited about a new discovery, as they did.

Droom is exactly what todays synthpop scene needs to push it a notch higher than where it stands. This is a band that took synthpop beyond its limits and boundaries to a new level. Blending New Romanticism with hard pounding beats, dramatic and dark lushes synth lines, echoing guitars and one of the kind programing, creating a masterpiece like no other. You may call it future-pop, but I call it heaven.

Graham Jackson's voice sends chills down my spine almost every time I hear a Droom song. His voice is truly amazing, unique and mesmerizing !! The lyrics are nothing but pure poetry. Graham is what I like to refer to as the Robert Smith (The Cure) of Synthpop, also playing guitars, and doing programing. We also have William Winslow-Hansen who can work the synthesizer like a magician, creating an orchestra of atmospheric dreamy sound to complete carving and shaping this masterpiece together. They are truely musical geniuses.

I was lucky enough to see this band LIVE along with their new live guitar player (Ian Giesbrecht) whom rocked that night. I have to admit that no band has EVER !!!!!! excited me like these guys did. Having them as guests for the weekend of synthpop festivities was also defiantly unforgettable and fun experience.

DROOM is defiantly the next big thing. This album is now on my top list for best album of 2003.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wow! There go my socks!, February 26, 2004

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Claire Acher (New York, New York United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 128 1/2 Days (Audio CD)

Droom's brilliant debut, 128 1/2 Days, knocked my socks off from Day One! It is without a doubt the best electronics-based album I've heard in the past several years.

Every musical element is top-notch. The instrumental composition and execution are multilayered and masterful, the melodies and vocals are airtight and engaging, and the tone of the album strikes the emotional sweet spot that is both galvanized euphoria and brooding melancholy at the same time. (Want big chunky bass lines and fast-moving beats for dancefloor delirium? Check. Evocative soundscapes for wistful contemplation? Check. Something you can sing along to while cruising down the highway? Check.)

Borrowing from British New-Wave-era songwriting and production style without being circumscribed by it, this album packs a powerful punch. Fans of synthpop, goth, and EBM alike have equal cause to rejoice in the long-awaited arrival of this auditory pearl. If you've been searching for an album that reminds you why you're passionate about music, your ship has come in.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars awesome cd throughout....., November 13, 2003

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Ken De Wit "ken43dw" (alberta canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 128 1/2 Days (Audio CD)

DROOM RULES is all i see these days on the www.adifferentdrum.com forum when i log on. well i finally got my copy today (canada post is slow). this is indeed a gem in my books.

i think if i had to tag it, i would say sounds like assemblage 23 with a touch of images in vogue. this album leans more towards the industrial side of synthpop without the screaming distorted vocals, but something they would play at a goth club for sure. the 13 track cd is over 70 minutes long. all the songs are long enough to get a real good feel of the song. the cd is well recorded and very well produced. i highly recommend fans of vnv nation, apop, assemblage, covenant, and anyone who just feels like some synthpop with an edge on it. very nice and melodic too by the way.

ken