Cold House

Hood | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 13, 2001)
• Original Release Date: 2001
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Aesthetics Records
• ASIN: B00005S244
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #345,084 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Every bit as good as Kid A - An unheard masterpiece, November 6, 2002

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J. Persh (West Bloomfield, MI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cold House (Audio CD)

I've often wondered what would happen if an artist released an album under a false name, what the critics and fans would think of something. This record- had it been a Radiohead record would have been hailed as brilliant, gorgeous and ground-breaking. Instead, it floats along without much fanfare in the alternative underground as an unheard masterpiece. Blips, beeps and cool moods of emotion are what carry this record down the path less traveled.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars 'Throbbin' Hood' (!!), October 26, 2008

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Paul Ess. (Holywell, N.Wales,UK.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cold House (Audio CD)

Not the fantastic 'Thunderbirds' villain, but a deceptively interesting pop group.
Hood are kinda like Pink Floyd circa 1967, when the zest for existence and a lust for experimentation hadn't dissolved into the lax tedium of cumbersome millstones like 'the Wall'. By contrast - Hood are STILL interesting.

'Cold House' is an album by Hood, and despite a somewhat doomy feel to the set, you can't help but feel they have essential humour to go with their not inconsiderable talent. Frolics to be had among the angst.
'Cold House' has the right mix of churning pop and staccato ballads. Some songs; 'the River Curls Around the Town' for example, are almost too experimental in a I'm-not-really-in-an-experimental-mood-today sense, but are not quite experimental enough a few days later.

Titles reflect the vital nature of the music. You've gotta be careful with things called 'They Removed All Trace That Anything Had Ever Happened Here' and 'I Can't Find My Brittle Youth' - songs with titles like these DARE not be poor and thankfully they aren't. They confidently succeed.

Hood have an intriguing knack of sounding like some-one else - only better. 'Trace' sounds like a vastly improved version of those rank woefuls Gallon Drunk, with a mournful violin nod to Microdisney's 'Pink Skinned Man'.
When you close your eyes, sometimes music can be a real eye-opener....

Hood's influences are manifold. The only influences anybody needs in modern music is Cabaret Voltaire and Dollar - coincidentally two of Hood's influences.

Some of Hood's songs, like 'Branches Bare' are just plain scary; some of their lyrics are dryly obscure, waiting for pseudo-intellectuals to pick their way through them, but they all have that special-music-something. That which can move you away from the mediocrity and the middlin' and energetically renew your sense of wonder.

When I was a wee bairn, there was a phrase abounding in critical circles: "bringing back something new".
A phrase that could have been specifically coined for Hood.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars masterpiece !, November 16, 2001

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indie (brussels, BELGIUM) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cold House (Audio CD)

HOOD has done it again, 'cold' is the next episode
after 'home is where it hurts'. ten tracks that will
help us through the dark novemberdays. Titles poetic
as ever, clever samples and moodish , go with this flow
of melancholia. With the cycle of days and seasons an essential
record!