Blossom Filled Streets

Movietone | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 18, 2000)
• Original Release Date: September 5, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Drag City
• ASIN: B00004WJ5Z
• Also Available in: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #314,716 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wistful, Cinematic, Intimate, September 5, 2000

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This review is from: Blossom Filled Streets (Audio CD)

Movietone wander openheartedly through a dreamy, gentle, quiet room, out onto a lawn, and into a sunny forest, before emerging to a seashore. The music is acoustic and slow, with soft guitar, bass, clarinet and Kate Wright's lovely vocals guiding us through. The tone is wistful, cinematic, and intimate. Make some tea and curl up with your antique afghan. This is elegantly naive couch music. Movietone sound like no-one else and are innovative rather than eclectic, but fans of the tenderest side of Tindersticks, Pram, The Sea and Cake, Broadcast, The Pastels, and Le Mans should find some kindered spirits here. Movietone's previous (second) album, Day and Night, was one of my favorites of the 90s and this gets the new decade off to a great start. I pray these folks will play live in Seattle someday. This release is on the best label in the world, Domino, in England (check out their new Geographic imprint, too), and on the outstanding Drag City here in the States. Buy direct from the label or support your local independent record store.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars dripping dreamy drops, December 3, 2003

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Andrew S. Toomajian (Montague, MA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blossom Filled Streets (Audio CD)

'the blossom filled streets' is an understated masterpiece. it shuffles and floats dreamily into your consciousness, and yet never fails to be compelling. can be listened to as a seamless whole or song by song. one of my favorite albums ever.

buy it - but hey, support your local independent record shop or order directly from the label.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Crushingly beautiful music, October 1, 2008

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P. MCGREGOR III (Baltimore, MD) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blossom Filled Streets (Audio CD)

Their "first" album - Day and Night - was amazing, beautiful, haunting, melancholy, and almost perfect. This record is amazing, beautiful, haunting, melancholy, and PERFECT. This is grown-up rock music, not adolescent, pretentious, self-loathing shoe-gazing pap. It is adult, intelligent, and artful music. Recommended.