Consent

Devlins | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 17, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Nettwerk
• ASIN: B00006I0DD
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #216,877 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Consent Given, November 28, 2003

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"superball9" (Arlington, VA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Consent (Audio CD)

The Devlins return with their atmospheric melodies on their third album, Consent, a much stronger disc and more consistent than their last release, Waiting. Irish brothers Colin & Peter Devlin produced and engineered the music themselves for the first time and received help from Tori Amos' production team of Mark Hawley & Marcel Van Limbeek, in addition to drummer Matt Chamberlain and their previous producer Pierre Marchand. Opening the album is the title track on which lead singer Colin explores his falsetto and makes Prince a little jealous in the process. The trippy "People Still Believing" would lend itself well to possible remixes while "There Is A Light" is progressed by a simple acoustic guitar melody. It's ashame that Consent is making its way to North America now because it will undeservingly get lost in the flood of melodic Britpop drowning the US market currently. Like many other British/Irish acts the Devlins have received key placement on Dawson's Creek and the soundtrack to Six Feet Under. Hopefully the Devlins can find their niche in the atmospheric Britpop and US markets and receive their long overdue commercial success.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply Brilliant, October 27, 2002

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Shonna Gariepy "Shonna" (Las Vegas, Nevada USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Consent (Audio CD)

The Devlins have been around longer than most people realize - as it's an average of 5 years between albums, most of us Devlins fans tend to go through serious withdrawl BUT that said, when they DO come out with a new work of art, it's truly that: a work of art - I've told the band and will tell you the same thing...though this may sound a bit like a beer commercial, still, it's truth: there is NO filler in a Devlins Album. You won't have to fast forward through tracks for a good one or for that one song you like because frankly, they could and SHOULD all be singles! Drift and Waiting, their other two CD's out there are also phenomenal, my favorite being Drift for the darker and more passionate songs, this CD, however, is taking that passion to new heights! There's a reason this is fast becoming the heavy favorite for hard core Devlins fans out there - it's bloody brilliant.
PS: This group has a large word-of-mouth fan-base.....please please please tell your friends to check out Devlins music, they won't be sorry!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Devlins CD so far, September 26, 2002

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Victoria Ballarat (Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Consent (Audio CD)

The Devlins have a distinctive sound, driven mainly by Colin Devlin's unique style. The more you listen, the more it grows on you. His voice ranges from clear and true on "There Is a Light" to seductive on "Static in the Flow" to bemused worldweariness on the dry wit (or is it biting sarcasm?) of "Montreal"--"You'll probably think my accent is sooo sweet." "Yeah, which war?". The Devlins make particularly good use of sampling to set the tone of this one, including the completely instrumental "Metro". Guitars, as always with them, are played with a lot of versatility, now exquisitely moody and Spanish on one song, for example, now light and playful on another. There isn't a bad song on the CD, although I would have put "Consent" somewhere other than as the first track myself. It's one of those rare finds that you can play from beginning to end without reaching for the "skip" button, which is why I opted for the fifth star.