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The Buried Life

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This is their best work. You will never hear another band use a guitar in this manner. Brad Laner likes to crank the treble all the way up and leave the vocals as the sole source of midrange. The noisy guitar sounds in the backround are kept together by Beth and Brad's harmonies. They have the knack for making you wonder which one is really the melody. In all this album will give you a sense of flight. They take a different approach to giving the same feel that U2 instills... not that they sound at all alike. "The Pink" and "Never Click" are my personal favorites, although the haromony parts really stand out on "When Something Goes Wrong". This is a perfect example of how noise can be pleasant when it is used correctly... it is impossible to turn this up loud enough!

This has been one of my favorite albums for nearly a decade. Everything about it is just beautiful--from the feedback-drenched guitars to Beth's airy vocals this album is a shoegaze/noisepop masterpiece. Recommended for fans of My Bloody Valentine and Slap Happy Humphrey.

it's so amazingly brilliant/pretty.
even my acquaintances who don't like shoegazey stuff like
this. "something goes wrong" is one of the most
appallingly good and simple songs i have ever heard.
the stars of this band were the drummer jim goodall
(a monster!) and of course braddy the brat (brilliant,
knows it). i used to write them off as mbv rips--then i got this
...and went back to the equally enticing "shot forth self living"
"the buried life" title cribbed from a Matthew Arnold poem, by the by. the shot forth from Blake, i think?! i think goodall dreamed that up cause my friend said he reads Joyce and stuff. a drummer-reader? amazing. i loves the meds!!!

If you're looking into buying this CD, DON'T judge it on Amazon's previews. Amazon really needs to fix this -- the previews for this album aren't the slightest bit accurate, not even the same genre. It's misleading for the previews to be off, for because of this, it took me forever to hear how this CD -actually- sounds, and having already established Medicine as one of my favorite artists for a while, I was pleased with its true colors and purchased it.

This precautious note was my main reason for writing the review, but..

It's a good album, I like it a lot so far. Track four, "She Knows Everything", won't work on my copy of the CD, but I'm sure it's a good song, too. I listened to others in that it expressed Medicine well, and I think it does.. Out of the CD, though, I really like the songs "The Pink", "Babydoll", and "Live it Down". The others are good in their own way, too, though, as they all have Medicine's unique sound, the way they combine noise, stoicity, and a catchy tune is memorable and truely needs to be heard to appreciate. They really are one of a kind.