All Aboard Future

These Are Powers (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 17, 2009)
• Original Release Date: 2009
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: DEAD OCEANS
• ASIN: B001NJY52Q
• In-Print Editions: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #406,638 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5.0 out of 5 stars New Directions for an Emergent Indie Rock Band, February 17, 2009

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directions "neuralbuddhist" (Space Time Foam) - See all my reviews

This review is from: All Aboard Future (Audio CD)

Having heard this album performed at an instore apperence at the store "Other Music" for the first time I decided to check it out. The no wave/early Sonic Youth influenced is less apparent (though not gone) and an electronica/glitchcore spasticity (though performance friendly, not laptops being programmed) filters through it. Its not quite so much "toned down" as taking a new direction. As I remember when I saw the Liars early on when they first performed material from their second album (before release) one had the same impression of the band that they were going in new and creative directions and I can only hope the same is true of These are Powers. "All Aboard Future" is well worth picking up and the band is certainly worth experiencing live as well. A welcome addition to a scene that was losing its originality and creativity, something certainly not lacking here.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Don't fear the future, February 17, 2009

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Scott Bresinger (New York, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: All Aboard Future (Audio CD)

("All Aboard Future" by These Are Powers)

...In which a band known for its no wave revivalism gives up the past in favor of a more digital future. This isn't an anti-nostalgia move so much as a Pro Tools one, so to speak. The noise isn't totally gone, mind you--it's now less apparent, backing up the band's jittery, cut n' paste contraptions and singer Anna Barie's charismatic yelps n' moans. Opening track "Easy Answers" sets the tone with it's clattering polyrhythmic percussion and freakish synths. "Life of Birds" features ghostly samples and can almost pass for a particularly harsh M.I.A. track. "Light After Sound" is slow and ominous, like a wave of aural thunderclouds crawling in over the horizon. This is a noisy vision of the future to be sure, but it's also a positive one, 'cause one can always tell the band clearly delights in even the strangest sounds. This is a celebration of strangeness, in other words. I say more powers to 'em if it means stuff like this. If you ever wished Animal Collective were more into Siouxsie than the Beach Boys then try strapping this on. Golly, pointless comparisons can be fun! Seriously though, if you can stop frothing at the mouth about how Jonas Brothers signify the death knell of American culture for a little while, stuff this down yr gullet. It'll make ya feel better. I promise.

P to tha mothafreakin' S: if you decide to be all old fashioned about your futurism and get this on vinyl, you're rewarded with a coupon for a free download of the album. Awful nice of 'em, if you ask me.