Beams [Enhanced]

The Presets | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 18, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced
• Label: Modular Interscope
• ASIN: B000F1IPJC
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #124,382 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Repetitive Instrumentals, November 7, 2008

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Sergio Vasquez "Someone Who Cheats for the Sa... (Lynwood, Ca) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Beams (Audio CD)

I enjoy this album because of its electro and bass feel. Songs like: "Are You the One", "Down Down Down", and "Girl and the Sea" can easily get u to the dance floor. While songs like "Kitty in the Middle" and Bad up Your Betterness" gives you that extra sexual boost with its bass foundation. This album also has a few instrumentals like "Worms," "Black Background," and "Beams" that have no change to its intrumental pattern (no breakdown no nothing). The song "I GO Hard, I Go Home," has a Kapoera sound that destroys the whole vibe of the album. It should have been a hidden track or something. In Conclusion, Purchase the following MP3's:

Are You the One
Down Down Down
Girl and the Sea
Kitty in the Middle
Girl You Chew my Mind Up
Bad up your Betterness

and buy the CD if you really want to feel my review first hand.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Aussie Electro Weirdos Make Good, May 7, 2006

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The Wasp (Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Beam (Audio CD)

Finally it all makes sense. Like a pack of cards without an ace of spades, a jigsaw missing numerous pieces or a Monopoly board without a `Second Prize In A Beauty Contest' Community Chest card, The Presets' output to date has been like a nagging puzzle impossible to solve. Keeping their audience at a distance by releasing just two EPs since forming in 2003, the enigmatic nature of The Presets has worked both for and against the Sydney duo. Their weird imagery, ethereal New Wave EP Girl And The Sea and recent work with Australian rock maestros such as Daniel Johns and The Sleepy Jackson have all helped build the excitement about their debut LP, yet the flipside - having an insubstantial back catalogue - may have worked against them. Nonetheless, The Presets' meagre output of puzzling electronica has been buffed up, bolstered and blasted into hyperspace with their debut Beams, finally offering a complete look into The Presets mindset rather than the prior brief teases.
Current single Down Down Down has regimented bite, squelchy Worms sounds like a Bowie instrumental from the experimental Outside era and the eerie throb of Steamworks wouldn't have sounded out of place on the new Goldfrapp album. Even I Go Hard, I Go Home, amusingly described by Julian Hamilton as "mindless music written for mindless people", is a ravey slice of fun that sits neatly between the Add N To (X)-meets-Backstreet Boys sounds of Girl (You Chew My Mind Up) and the slipping beats and Xanax slur of Bad Up Your Betterness.
With Beams, The Presets enigma is finally solved. Julian and Kim Moyles have created an Australian electrorock experience that rivals last year's debut from Cut Copy, proving that you can never wear too many musical hats - or freaky masks, for that matter.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An amazing debut album!, January 24, 2006

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mehaf (Brisbane, Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Beam (Audio CD)

The Presets have released two great EPs already, and they have completed the trifecta by releasing a great debut album. The songs cover a whole different spectrum of emotions, from dark, raw grit on such tracks as 'Are You The One?' and 'Down Down Down', to light, chilled-out tunes like 'Girl And The Sea' and 'Kitty In The Middle'. Electro has never been so cool!

These guys make music that appeals to both ravers and indie lovers, by utilising dancey synth loops, deep bass, vox fade-laced vocals and generally dirty beats. These guys are touted as being a major hope as a future music leader in Australia, and it's not hard to see why. They break so many musical barriers that it is impossible to lump them into one genre. But when music is this good, genres are irrelevant. Check it out now!