All Mapped Out Pt.1 [Single, Import]

Departure | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 7, 2005)
• Original Release Date: January 1, 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Single, Import
• Label: EMI/Parlophone
• ASIN: B0009F9O80
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,328,176 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. All Mapped Out

2. Blackout

3. All Mapped Out (??$ Remix)

Editorial Reviews

Re release of limited 2004 debut single, with new artwork & B side.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars The Masterplan, September 21, 2004

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altmalta "www.alternativemalta.com" (Malta) - See all my reviews

This review is from: All Mapped Out (Audio CD)

source: www.alternativemalta.com

It's funny how something as simple as a song can affect your life. The thrill of listening to it the first time and then the joy of pressing the repeat button to make sure that it was as good as that first listen, and then pressing the repeat button a third time so that it is ingrained in your memory for life.
New Parlophone signings `The Departure' have done this to me. `All Mapped Out', alongside the last two Bloc Party singles have to be the best things I've heard so far.

The Departure's sound is cribbed from the eighties British post-punk period i.e. Joy Division, Echo and Bunnymen and Gang of Four. In other words something majestic and minimal.
`All Mapped Out' instantly assaults the ears with Gang of Four chords and lead singer David Jones intones `My eyes a camera' and from then onwards you are hooked. Despite the melancholic undertones and ramblings of `I see no future in this no future', the song is still uplifting and even dancey, thanks to Ben Winton's propulsive bass.
The b-side `Dirty Words' is just as good, with heavy Gang of Four/Echo and the Bunneymen discordant chords and those epic undertones both still there. Not as good as the A-side but that's the way a single is supposed to be. One thing can be judged by this triumphant first release. The world will be waiting for The Departure's arrival soon!