Customer Reviews

After the War

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Wow... while listening to this I hear flashes of Beatles, early Pink Floyd, and newer stuff like Bends-era Radiohead, Matthew Sweet, and even a splash of Flaming Lips. Very enjoyable from start to finish. There is a good mix of upbeat, mid-paced, and slow songs. Wonderful intrumentation with trumpets, celesta, piano and glockenspiel. The interludes with sound effects help tie the whole story together. While this is a concept album about post WWII...it is not nearly as depressing as Pink Floyd's The Final Cut.

Wow, I didn't expect anything this good. www.onetimesone.com has a great review of this cd, check it out, it says everything I would like to say but more eloquent.

The only real shortfall of this album is the lack of flow. For a concept album it doesn't seem to be quite as coherent as it should be. Sleep Station's Von Costel EP (available free at www.sleep-station.com) has the storyline flow that I expected from this one. Von Costel, by the way, is an amazing album - especially for free!

With that said, this is still a solid album with a nice mix of tempo throughout, and an interesting concept.

I really like this CD. Great story telling. Great melodies. Nice instrumentals too. Might be getting hard to find by now.

This wonderful album crept into my life last year. It's so understated, yet the simple beauty of the songs do not take long to grab you. The notion of tying a lyrical theme about World War II to a pop music backdrop is bravely original as well! Tracks like "Caroline, London 1940" "After the War" and "Silver in the Sun" alone makes this album better than most in the indie pop genre. Stellar...

this is the best of sleep station's cd's. its all easy to listen to soft rock. you can definately hear the influences from the beatles and even a little pink floyd. I play the songs "caroline, london 1940" and "burden to you" over and over!

Freshly released on Bardic records, "After the War" is a Rock & Roll album that has definite Indy influences. The make use of fuzz tone acoustic guitars, and distorted tinny vocals that drive through the entire album. There is a strained effort as the lead singer screams of past loves between trumpet lines, creating the false illusion of regality. The band has two line ups on the album and consists of Daniel Goodwin on percussion, Ryan Ball on bass and synthesizer, Jason Debiak on mellotron, Brad Paxton on guitars, Sarah Shephard on vocals, David Debiak on Vocals, guitar, and Vahak Janbazian on percussion. No website was listed for the band, though a Google search may turn something up. Look for the official release in early May. All content copyright www.maximumink.com